Word: ra
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...question was how much the junta itself had helped to accent the crisis. In their steadfast enmity toward the leftist but anti-Communist APRA party of Victor Raúl Haya de la Torre, the military men had shown a peculiar tolerance for the Communists, who were competing for the same peasant and laborer following. Several Red leaders were released from jail, known Communists were appointed to labor councils. Emboldened by this freedom, the Reds had gone about their violent errands with such a will that the junta could no longer ignore them...
Champagnat began his work in 1957 with an investigation of the microorganisms that he found thriving in oil residues at the Lavéra refinery near Marseille. He and his associates gradually learned which strains of bugs prefer which kinds of petroleum, and which produce the most and best protein. When the chemists learned how to grow the bugs in quantity, they filtered them out of the culture, separated them from all traces of petroleum and fed them to laboratory animals. Ihe < bugs proved to be an excellent protein concentrate, comparable in nutrient value to fish meal or soya cake...
British Petroleum is building a pilot plant at Lavéra and plans to produce a ton of oil protein per day. The new product will be tried out first as animal feed but there seems to be no reason why it shou d not be fed to humans too. Produced in marketable quantities, it may turn out to be a bargain. Low-grade oil sells tor slightly more than 1? per lb., and a pound of good protein has the nutrient value of 5 lbs. of lean meat...
...takes the televiewer to a picnic on the Marne, a village Bastille Day fete, a couturier's salon. Hachette's producers rented a whole railroad to film the champagne country east of Paris, spent four days tying up traffic in the Avenue de 1'Opéra to film the perils of taking a Parisian taxi, and magnificently illustrated the verb "smell" by going to a pungent source-the Paris...
...leftist support to keep happy. Flying back to New York the Algerian Premier would say no more about Cuba. But Algerians at the U.N. reported some interesting observations by Ben Bella and his aides about their Cuban hosts. They got the feeling that Che Guevara and Armed Forces Commander Raúl Castro were the real "strongmen" of the regime. President Osvaldo Dorticós, long considered a mere Castro puppet, was a surprisingly "strong personality." What about Castro himself? "Still immature, and too nervous...