Word: planted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...There were no decorations, no honor guard, no military band. And not until half an hour after Kosygin's arrival did Radio Havana get around to mentioning the visit. Even then, it gave only a brief announcement barely longer than another item praising workers of the Balcan pasteurization plant for delivering their quota of yoghurt...
Doing as the Romans Do. Inevitably, other European appliance companies have suffered. Three major Belgian manufacturers have discontinued refrigerator production. General Motors (France) may soon stop making them too, and Whirlpool Corp., after only four years of European operation, has sold plant and Pontiac brand name to French companies. British manufacturers have decided to do as the Romans do: Hoover's English subsidiary markets Zanussi-made refrigerators under a Hoover label, and British Hotpoint lets Zoppas make its washers...
...Herald will soon follow the Traveler's steps. This isn't too likely since the Herald, which carries the New York' Times news dispatches, is a fairly solid and well-liked paper. But some staffers see a grizzly connection between the Record-American's need for a new plant, the death of the Traveler, and the Herald-Traveler's fairly new $7 million plant...
Crooks sees a "three-fold mission" for the Summer School, actually a kind of mission civilatrice for Harvard. First, he says, is the obligation of a university--any university--to be at work as much as possible: "Why shut down this magnificant plant all summer long?" Then there is Harvard's special role as one of the few liberal arts summer schools in the New England region, serving students who could not otherwise go to summer school. And finally there is the desirability of "people from all over the world having at least one Harvard experience...
...queries on whether the U.S. should withdraw immediately, or whether the President should be opposed in 1968 even if running against a hawkish Republican. On the other hand, radical leaders who will be helping to direct Vietnam Summer are said to believe that its main function is to plant the seeds for broad-based radical politics--something never before accomplished on a long-range basis in the United States...