Word: horizons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Heat. The land is vast and cruel, running some 2,000 miles from the icy peaks of the Himalayas, in the heart of central Asia, down to the steaming jungles of Cape Comorin, on the Indian Ocean. In summer, wrote Rudyard Kipling, there is "neither sky, sun, nor horizon. Nothing but a brown-purple haze of heat. It is as though the earth were dying of apoplexy." During this furnace season, millions of Indian villagers lie gasping in their mud huts; wells dry up and fields blow away. When the monsoon rains come in the fall, the torrential downpours drown...
...mother in flake form in envelopes, need only be stirred into hot water. Says Mortimer: "The nutrition is as perfect as can be. And the peas are so green that we have to explain to the mothers that we haven't added dye." As part of its new Horizon line, General Foods is testing a partially dehydrated spaghetti casserole that can be eaten on Friday by Catholics because its "meat" is actually made of soybeans. "It has everything," beams Mortimer, "including religion...
...that can tell how much gelatin is in a batch of JellO, or what kind of protein is in a piece of meat. The laboratories produced all of the seven new products produced in 1959: butterscotch chips, caramel chips, Buffay (a fortified rice), Instant Yuban (a high-grade coffee), Horizon's Italian Casserole, frozen potato puffs, and Prime, a new dog food, which was carefully tested in the company's own kennels...
...manager for Ike and past chairman of the Republican National Committee (1953-57), he knows more Republican politicians, and is more familiar with the intricacies of the party's machinery than any other man. The fact that he is no friend of the other G.O.P. candidate on the horizon. New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller (Hall clearly wanted the Republican gubernatorial nomination that went to Rocky last year), has put Hall even more solidly in Nixon's camp...
...greatest power, ahead of all others except the U.S., Russia and China. We may even be ahead of China, too." Last week, with 14 months to go in his five-year term, Kubitschek was candidly proud of the humming factories, the new roads slashing through the jungle to the horizon's edge, the new cities leaping from red earth in the interior...