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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...extent that the spirit of Geneva has been harmed (by the Communists' hand), that hope has been struck down. The anti-Communist world prospers, economically and politically. West German prosperity is the marvel of Europe. Talk of European unity revives. The U.S., breaking production records, is in sight of balancing its federal budget. President Eisenhower is up and around. And even in the far-off Philippines, friends of all-out collaborators with the U.S. win a re sounding election victory...
Black Angus, White Fence. Then it was a tired, 189-acre dairy farm, worked for 30 years by Allen S. Redding. Sight unseen, Ike paid $23,000 for Redding's house and land. He split operating costs with famed Presidential Jester George E. Allen, who owns a nearby 80-acre farm, then left for Paris to command NATO. Until he returned to become President, the farm, its topsoil worn away in supporting Redding's 42 milch cows and heifers, was a losing proposition. Ike sold his share of the operation to Allen, who switched it to grassland cultivation...
...viruses would have no value for general prescription use, so the researchers have high hopes that they will soon achieve similar success with two of its kin, Types 4 and 7. Then a polyvalent vaccine would be practicable. But PHS researchers sadly admit that there is still nothing in sight of any earthly use to ward off the common cold...
Under such inviting terms, the day may be in sight when oil, already Bolivia's No. 2 export, becomes...
...most destructive natural enemies. Another is the deer's adjustment to civilization. They seem to browse and thrive better in the thickets and brush at the edges of cities and cleared farmland than in dense forest. Deer have been shot by New York and New Jersey hunters within sight of Manhattan's skyscrapers...