Word: roote
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Matter of Cash. At the root of the Filipino dilemma is the age-old Asian problem of too many people, too little food. Population is growing by a million a year, and some 360,000 youngsters enter the labor market annually, only to find jobs largely lacking. To feed this fecund people, Marcos must produce 4,600,000 tons of palay (unhusked rice) in the coming year; even at that he will have to import 600,000 tons-at a cost of $65 million...
...pill's hormones are derived mostly from a chemical called diosgenin, which until 1945 was obtainable only in small quantities from tropical plants. Then Dr. George Rosenkranz, at that time a Syntex research chemist, found that the Mexican yam, or barbasco root, yielded much larger amounts of diosgenin. In 1951 Syntex's Dr. Carl Djerassi first synthesized from it female sex hormones that women could swallow. Later it was discovered that the hormones were effective as an oral contraceptive. Syntex then began selling the compound to other drug firms, later introduced its own pill. Both Syntex and Searle...
...contracts is planned for coming months. The projects are being carried out by four private U.S. construction and engineering firms that have banded together in a giant venture called RMK-BRJ. The four: Raymond International of Manhattan, Morrison-Knud-sen of Boise, Idaho (sponsor of the combine), Brown & Root of Houston and J. A. Jones of Charlotte, N.C. RMK-BRJ employs 1,433 American civilians and 22,710 Vietnamese on 40 major projects and 100 lesser ones...
...agency, reiterated Hanoi's uninterest in negotiations by releasing a letter that North Viet Nam's President Ho Chi Minh wrote two weeks ago to U.S. Scientist Linus Pauling, a leading ban-the-bomb crusader. For the umpteenth time, Ho denounced "U.S. aggression," calling it "the sole root of the serious situation in Viet Nam and in Southeast Asia." His letter then proceeded to enunciate the unvarying set of preconditions to peace talks that Hanoi laid down last April. Once again Ho insisted that the "most correct way" to end the war was for "the U.S. imperialists...
...essays and novels, Philip Wylie has profitably lambasted Mom, Pop, the common man, the businessman, the scientific man, sexy advertising, and American apathy in the face of potential nuclear disaster. Now he reports his latest revelation. Incestuous feelings are natural and healthy, but the fear of incest is the root of all evil. He discovers very TIME, NOVEMBER 5, 1965 little that is not evil in this tour through the libidinal jungle, which he ponderously describes through the eyes of a hero named - ahem - Philip Wylie. Commissioned to write the biography of an aging financier-philanthropist, Hero Wylie discovers that...