Word: rose
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...When about 60 Negro students and 100 antiwar youths walked out on him, the crowd booed them and cheered Humphrey's crack: "We were just testing the exits on both ends of the gym, and they work." But Humphrey turned serious when one Negro student, Robert Pickett, 20, rose to question him. Pickett said that he could not buy Humphrey's talk about the "American dream" because "for the black man it is the American nightmare." Humphrey replied that he understood Pickett's being discouraged, that not enough had been done to achieve racial equality...
Whatever may happen in Paris, peace seemed a distant prospect last week on the battlefields of Viet Nam, where the war rose to a fighting pitch of intensity unequaled since the Tet offensive. The Viet Cong shelled Saigon and a dozen other cities and attempted ground attacks in some cases, but their assault, far from being a second round on the scale of Tet, amounted to little more than coordinated harassment. Elsewhere, U.S. and South Vietnamese forces scored sizeable victories in heavy fighting around Saigon, in the Delta and, particularly, in northernmost I Corps, where the bloodiest battles...
...Meillands make a fetish of rigorous testing, and take ten years or more to create a new variety of rose. The seeds of cross-pollinated blooms are culled and planted and the seedlings put down in the greenhouses-100,000 at a time. Every morning the young boss walks down the long, glass-covered alleys, pulling out some roses and placing white marker sticks next to the promising bushes...
...remain by the end of the sixth year. Those select bushes are then sent to 24 countries, from the U.S. to Finland, from Kenya to Japan, for exposure to various climates. In the end, perhaps one plant out of the original 100,000 will make the grade. The new rose will be notable for its color, the firmness of its silken petals or its longevity. His Baccara was the first rose to last for a week after cutting, claims Alain Meilland, but in some recent tests his latest creation, Lovita, stayed in fresh bloom for three weeks...
...Meillands trace their business success to a trip that Francis Meilland made to the U.S. in 1935. He traveled 15,000 miles cross-country in a secondhand car and studied the American rose industry-from breeding to selling. When Meilland went home, he became the first in Europe to use color plates in his catalogues and promote sales campaigns with colored posters He also fought persistently for European patent laws that would protect his new plants. Until his lobbying achieved success all over the Continent, his best products were pirated by competitors Today, with the law behind it, the Meilland...