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...guerrilla warfare, which claimed more than 500 lives, Cyprus attained independence in 1960. The settlement was negotiated by Britain, Greece, Turkey and representatives of the Greek and Turkish Cypriot communities. However, it pleased few of the Cypriots, since it fulfilled the yearnings for neither enosis nor taksim. A hybrid government was created that called for a Greek as President and a Turk as Vice President. In the Cabinet and legislature, the Turks were given 30% of the seats -nearly double their percentage of the island's population...
...poky Aerocrane probably will never be practical as a people mover, but it could be economically put to other uses. Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater, a strong advocate of lighter-than-air vehicles, is encouraging the Senate Aeronautical and Space Sciences Committee to study the potential of blimps, dirigibles and hybrid airships as bulk cargo transporters during hearings this summer. All American Engineering already foresees such chores for its Aerocranes as lifting logs out of remote timberland, unloading container ships that are too large to come into port, and delivering fully prefabricated houses directly from factory to home site...
...committee also cast doubts on some of his other work. It discovered that a mouse Summerlin brought with him when he went to S.K.I, as an example of a successful graft was a hybrid rather than inbred species as he had claimed. Thus it was genetically compatible with the animal whose skin it had received, and the fact that the graft took was somewhat less than remarkable. The committee also raised questions about Summerlin's interpretation of some of his earliest attempts to transplant skin between humans. In three of five patients Summerlin treated, the graft has since been...
...prices has nearly trebled the cost of nitrogen fertilizers and of fuel for irrigation pumps upon which the crops of high-yield rice and wheat rely. Hundreds of thousands of Asia's small farmers who once enthusiastically sowed their fields with the Green Revolution's hybrid strains are now reverting to more traditional methods of cultivation. The harvests are smaller but much less dependent on fertilizers, pesticides and irrigation...
...1930s, Gene Autry and Roy Rogers made the singing cowboy a national hero. With the mobilization of the entire population in World War II, regional music styles began to meld. A languorous hybrid known as country-and-western was born, in which the still simple music of the Southeast was blended with the more sophisticated instrumentation (steel guitar, drums, even horns) of the Far West. This wedding of styles produced, among others, Merle Travis, Webb Pierce and the late Hank Williams. The rise of rock 'n' roll (notably Elvis Presley, who began his career singing country-and-western...