Word: fastnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Shadow Ran Fast, Sands...
...Nigeria; U.S.-supplied vaccine, shot into 10 million cows, saw to that. In Peru, courtesy of U.S. taxpayers, 500,000 school kids get a glass of milk each morning. Fishermen in Kenya are content: the U.S. gave them new boats so they could catch fish twice as fast, and now they only work half as long. But oops! That $2.6 billion sent to Yugoslavia seems to have sunk without a trace. In Jordan a dike that cost the U.S. close to $1,000,000 meanders across the flinty desert for dozens of miles, waiting to trap rain that never falls...
...South Viet Nam's undermanned, underfinanced Ministry of Social Welfare, backed by a 20-man group of AID officials in the U.S. Operations Mission, and an assortment of private American charity organizations. None is adequate for the task, for the refugee problem has grown so big so fast that it all but rivals the war itself...
...Maumee, Ohio, the competitors were so young that in some cases the only way to tell a boy from a girl was by whether the bathing suit had a top. Seattle's Steve Krause, 15, surprised everybody including himself ("I never dreamed that I would swim that fast") when he splashed to a new world record of 16 min. 58.6 sec. in the 1,500-meter freestyle. California's Claudia Kolb, 15, won the women's 100-meter breast stroke, the 200-meter breast stroke and the 200-meter individual medley, topped it off by helping...
...forerunners of a U.S. attempt to successfully export U.S. beef on the hoof to Europe, which has long had a prejudice against more easily transported frozen beef. The cattle were not the only American arrivals in European ports. U.S. farm exports are pouring into the Common Market at so fast a pace that they have become a major point of discord at Kennedy Round meetings between the U.S. and the Big Six, which fear that lower European tariffs can only result in an even greater flood of U.S. goods...