Word: planted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Battalions of workers struggled to plant trees, lay pavement, erect lamp posts. Air-conditioning and simultaneous-translation equipment was installed but not hooked up. Toilets refused to flush. Generators stood uncrated in the sand. At least ten of 65 new villas for visiting chiefs of state had no walls. To add to the confusion at "Shambles-onSea," as newsmen dubbed Des Pins, the multimillion-dollar conference hall at week's end was ripped by a violent explosion-presumably the work of anti-government terrorists...
...least one region of Peru - the mountainous district of Andamarca, 160 miles northeast of Lima. One afternoon, a band of about 60 guerrillas wearing Cuban-style, olive green uniforms and armed with submachine guns, invaded two big cattle estates, burning houses and barns, destroying a butter-and-cheese plant and cutting telephone wires. Then, six of the guer rillas rode to a mine, hijacked a mining company truck carrying 20 cases of dynamite, and blew up two bridges near the village of Concepcion. Other guerrillas attacked at least two other haciendas and surprised two small police outposts, captured four police...
...addition, the Sunday edition of the Trib would combine with the Journal's Sunday paper (the Telly has no Sunday edition). At the same time, the papers are exploring the possibility of combined printing operations to cut production costs, and are considering building a new $25 million plant. Hopefully, these new arrangements would enable the papers to compete more successfully with the front-running-and money-making -News and Times...
...snap locks, and a plastic skin that can withstand everything from the -50° F, cold in an airliner's cargo compartment to the rough treatment of baggage handlers, have lifted luggage sales almost beyond Samsonite's capacity. The company has placed its 13-acre Denver luggage plant on a seven-day, round-the-clock schedule, is actively scouting sites for three additional plants...
Died. Dr. Ichiro Ohga, 82, known throughout Japan as "Dr. Lotus" for his lifelong experiments with lotus plants, who won worldwide notice in 1952 when he succeeded in making a 2,000-year-old seed blossom into a beautiful pink flower and nursed the plant back to such health that it is still alive in a Kemigawa botanical garden dedicated to him; of a stroke; in Tokyo...