Word: mixes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Above its still mysterious floor, the ocean is not homogeneous but is a vast, intricate structure of separate and distinct layers, each with its own character and individuality. In some places the layers curl up and mix; in other places they do not. Through the layers mighty rivers stream on largely unknown courses, often flowing in opposite directions close to one another. Exploration of this huge anatomy is just beginning. Realizing ever more clearly that most weather originates over the oceans, meteorologists are studying its mighty motions as the key to the world's climate. A change...
...army mess recently invited more Moslems than Europeans to a tea, and warned Europeans that if they did not mix with the Moslem guests, "only one conclusion could be drawn"-that fraternization was a myth. One French captain wrote a dozen letters to local rebels, promising them amnesty if they left the F.L.N. to resume normal lives in their villages. Several replied in almost friendly fashion, one saying that he wanted to wait and see what came of De Gaulle's forthcoming meeting with the King of Morocco. That meeting, if it takes place, would imply high-level Moslem...
Last week the Agriculture Department began to mix the same foul old omelet. After listening to a delegation of New Jersey egg farmers and their complaints about the egg surplus, Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson issued orders to buy millions of dollars worth of frozen eggs from the nation's commercial egg-freezing plants as an indirect aid to prop up falling egg prices. The new egg-buying program is on top of $16 million Benson has spent since last October buying dried eggs, mostly for the Government-aided school-lunch program...
...Kistiakowsky, a handy man with chemicals, who whipped up an "Aunt Jemima" cake mix that would blow its victim right out of this world, will soon sit in the White House. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
...Incan Indian appears to have been delivered because of a slovenly mix-up of orders at the Philadelphia foundry that made it. When the wrong Indian arrived in Cuzco, with three feathers in the hair and a bow in the hand, Cuzco happened to be preoccupied by graver matters: a typhoid epidemic that reduced the population from 60,000 to 11,000. All records of the transaction with the foundry were lost around 1880 when a government building caved in, and Cuzco preferred not to listen to the skeptics. Says Cuzco Historian Enrique Gamarra Hernández: "Atahuallpa was never...