Word: northern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Navy people called upon the scientists. The scientists tried filching the gooneys' eggs. The birds wailed like banshees at the egg snatchers, then promptly laid some more. In desperation, the Navy packed some gooneys into planes, hauled them to far-off Guam, to Kwajalein, to northern Japan, even to Puget Sound-4,000 miles away. Unerringly, the gooneys, thoughtfully marked with a shocking-pink head dye for identincation, flew back to Midway. And the Navy learned that nothing smells up a plane more pungently than a load of airsick gooneys...
...Chinese maps showing some 6,000 square miles of Pakistani territory as part of China. As for Burma, only three years ago Peking had piously assured the Burmese government that there would never be any question about the Burma-China border. But Chinese maps still claimed huge chunks of northern Burma, and Chinese squatters were beginning to settle there...
...response, the chief of a nation that the U.S. considers a fully equal Northern Hemisphere partner walked to a bank of microphones and put relations along the Rio Grande in a nutshell. Said López Mateos: "No problem exists or can exist between our governments capable of weakening or jeopardizing this friendship...
...statement took in much ground, but it was so. Compared to the days when Brigadier General John J. Pershing chased Pancho Villa across northern Mexico, today's problems are nothing. The Mexicans worry about the effect of cut-rate U.S. cotton surplus sales on its worldwide markets; some U.S. mining outfits fret over Mexican taxes; the sewers of Tijuana hamper ocean bathing near San Diego. And so it goes, trailing into insignificance...
High Pressure. Meteorologists have a more prosaic explanation. There have been almost twice as many hours of sunshine this year in France as in normal years, apparently because of a high-pressure area in the Canary Islands that pushed the normal summer storms southward. Thus the northern vineyards enjoyed a season of incomparable warmth, free of the violent hailstorms that slash the vines and bruise the grapes. At the same time there has been enough moisture in the ground to keep the vines fresh. "The leaves are still green as we pick," says one grower. "This means a glycerine content...