Word: problems
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Allies, for all their discords, had liberated in a brilliant campaign. There, waiting at Paris' Le Bourget Airport, stood erect General Charles de Gaulle, France's Man of Liberation and Man of Recovery, and now a proud and difficult ally often billed as NATO's No.1 problem. When the President all but sprinted down the ramp. De Gaulle stepped forward and said in English, "Hello, how are you?" Said De Gaulle later in a formal greeting: "You are a man, a man of intelligence, a man of heart, a man of honor." The President termed De Gaulle...
...NATO. Between and after pageants, the President held two solid talks with De Gaulle, one for 70 minutes alone with interpreters, one for almost an hour with Secretary of State Christian Herter and French Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville. On France's labyrinthine problem in Algeria, a problem that De Gaulle kept coming back to, the President was pleased and impressed by De Gaulle's new initiative there toward settlement (see FOREIGN NEWS). On NATO, the President restrained De Gaulle's widely bruited hopes for a sort of NATO three-power directorate by promising principally...
...summer. a combination that weakens perennial grasses and strengthens the hardy weed. In Suburbia, where crab grass on a lawn can lower a man's status faster than a garbage can in his foyer, the prolific (up to 50,000 seeds a plant) weed has become a neighborhood problem, like juvenile delinquency; if not snuffed out in one spot. it quickly spreads to another. Yet it is almost impossible to stop: digging only exposes more seeds, poison is often ineffective or kills other grasses, mowing only conditions crab grass to produce its seeds closer to the ground...
...Watson: "I'm sick of fighting. I decided to grow just crab grass. We've had wonderful luck with it.'' Trouble is that crab grass turns brown at the first frost. But Chicago's National Chemical & Manufacturing Co. has found one answer for that problem: Luminall Lawn Tint, a green paint that can be used to spray over all those brown spots...
...North Beach's Columbus Avenue, a dozen customers once constituted an oxygen problem at the City Lights bookstore, run by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, 40, as a combination Beat Haven and publishing house. Now the crush is so great that the bookstore has been expanded, and Ferlinghetti's only slightly offbeat A Coney Island of the Mind (New Directions) has sold a surprising 15,000 copies. The really far-out beatniks do even better. Allen Ginsberg's effete epic, Howl, published by Ferlinghetti, is up to 40,000 copies in print, and Fantasy Records is preparing a disk...