Word: contentively
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...below the border, spider-webbed the once desolate Mexicali Valley with irrigation canals. Then in 1961, under the Wellton-Mohawk reclamation project in Arizona's Yuma Desert, U.S. cotton growers began draining salty irrigation water from their soil-and flushed the residue back into the river, whose salt content rose from a tolerable 800 parts per 1,000,000 to more than 6,000. Mexicali crops withered, and the Mexican government estimated farm losses at $80 million...
Worse yet, Millis' premises are as wrong as his conclusions. For the United States has not managed to remain aloof from local violence, nor have France and China been content with purely verbal dissent over the course of the Cold War. In Vietnam the administration seems to have forgotten about the disutility of arms: Gen. Taylor is reported to have said that there are no measures we are not prepared to take to win the war. Nor does the fact that France and China are both working on an independent deterrent bear out Millis' assertion that weapons are largely ornamental...
...satirical numbers such as Which Hat Shall I Wear (a giddy social type talking to her Negro cleaning woman) and Yowzah ("Shonuf, Yassuh Boss!"), an acid comment on the Uncle Tom refrain. They have three of the smoothest voices in folkdom, and their racial protests, though skimpy in content, are strictly nonviolent...
These men, ranging from the systems engineers at the top down to the machine operators, have made a pampered and all but adored child of the computer. Not content with having it perform wondrous feats in space and on earth, they are constantly trying to extend its capabilities. In the experimental milieu they have created, they have taught computers to play ticktacktoe, blackjack, checkers and a passable game of chess, instructed it to compose avant-garde music (the Illiac Suite at the University of Illinois), write simple TV westerns and whodunits, and even try its hand at beatnik poetry. Example...
...Protective Service. Companies on the defensive are also using closed-circuit television, two-way mirrors, lie-detector tests, and telephone taps of their own. But the very best preventive, businessmen decided at the A.M.A. meeting, is none of these things: it is for companies to keep their employees so content that they will not stoop to snoop for others, and will not be tempted to take their secrets to another company...