Word: ir
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rugged IR-8. Marcos has taken the first steps toward defining and defeating these problems. His new Four-Year Plan, which won $21 million worth of support from Washington last month, envisions self-sufficiency in rice and corn production by 1969. His expedients: a combination of improved irrigation systems and more fertilizer plus such superior strains of rice as the rugged IR-8, developed by the Rockefeller Foundation (TIME, Oct. 7) at the rice institute at Los Ba?...
...away his unit's position by firing needlessly at an Allied reconnaissance plane. Last week more than 1,000 Viet Cong and North Vietnamese lay dead in the rice fields rimming Sweet Water Bay north of Qui Nhon, and another 950 captured -all because a Communist took an ir resistible potshot at a helicopter of the U.S. 1st Cavalry (Airmobile...
...G.O.P.'s latest cheer started with a chuckle. Last spring, St. Louis Brewer (Budweiser) August Busch Ir. happened to join the President's Club, bringing in family and friends to the tune of $10,000 in Democratic contributions. Several weeks later the Justice Department happened to drop a four-year-old antitrust suit against his Anheuser-Busch Corp. Then Busch, who also owns the Cardinals, happened to invite First-Ball Pitcher Hubert Humphrey to fly to the All-Star game in his company plane. In view of the airline strike, the Vice President hopped aboard - along with...
...demolish the notion that Franklin Roosevelt drew up the zones of occupation for Germany. Actually, the plan was Britain's. F.D.R. was first shown the occupation plans in 1943, when he was aboard the U.S.S. Iowa on his way to the Cairo and Teheran conferences. He was both ir ritated and troubled, says Ryan, because the British plan, called Operation Rankin, placed the U.S. zone in the southern German provinces. "We should go as far as Berlin," Roosevelt said. "The U.S. should have Berlin. The Soviets can take the territory to the east...
...Zealand desk, but between 1960 and 1962 a Vietnamese-speaking official of the U.S. embassy's political section in Saigon; Earl J. Young, 34, an AID representative in South Viet Nam between 1963 and last February; Lieut. Colonels Thomas M. Wait, 40, and Rolfe L. Hillman Ir., 41, both veteran U.S. Army advisers in South Viet...