Word: plante
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Goldwyn said that he felt it was the particular duty of physicians to make the public aware of the dangers involved in germ warfare and to provoke debate on the desirability of U.S. stockpiling of chemical weapons. Goldwin and Sidel members of Physicians for Social Responsibility cited a plant in Indiana that had employed 300 workers until 1964 solely for the production of nerve gas as indicative of the U.S. ability to wage gas warfare...
...went from stop to stop. In Budapest, discussions with Hungarian foreign ministry officials and a visit to Cardinal Mindszenty; in Sofia, trade talks with Bulgarian economists and a chug-a-lug of the first cold Coca-Cola from a new bottling plant. Then back to Warsaw to prepare his report. Gronouski's summation: "There hasn't yet been a great deal of change [in Communist economic systems], but there is a great deal of thinking. With one exception-Rumania-the countries I visited are experimenting with new economic reforms. That gives more room for individual initiative and opens...
...executive producer, "the little bee who goes from one area to another, gathering pollen and sort of stimulating everybody." Obviously he is the head bee. One ex-Disney executive notes that, for all its 3,300 employees, the corporation is still a one-man show. "Everything in that plant goes through Walt and with his blessing. The king is king, as far as he's concerned. He okays ideas, and he's used the ideas of many, many talented men over the years-but before he's through, he has everyone believing they were his ideas...
...Secretary of the Interior, a farmer and former Governor of North Dakota who became one of the first high Government officials to recognize the unlimited possibilities of desalting sea water, invested $150,000 in federal funds for a pilot desalinization project that was the forerunner of the multimillion-dollar plant currently in use at Guantánamo; of cancer; in Fargo...
Died. Battista Pininfarina, 70, Italy's virtuoso of automobile styling, famed for the sculptured elegance of his sports and grand touring cars, whose Turin plant turned out 75 mostly handcrafted auto bodies a day at prices ranging from $2,500 for a Fiat to $18,000 for a Ferrari, each stamped with the designer's genius for sweeping, uncluttered, unchromed lines, something that Detroit has come to admire in recent years; of liver disease; in Lausanne, Switzerland...