Word: soiling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Perhaps it began in his old man's garden. His old man, he later discovered by reading books, had never been a "real" father to him. His old man should never have become a scientist. He should have remained a farmer. He loved to work the soil and watch things grow. Scott himself didn't care much for the soil, not to work in it anyway. He was scientifically inclined. But since his father was a scientist, he couldn't accept this inclination either. He felt science was pushed on him. So he had done nothing except...
Died. Ernest Nixon, 85, President Nixon's uncle, a professor of plant pathology at Pennsylvania State University from 1917 to 1940, who, for his successful efforts in encouraging farmers to grow potatoes in the hard Pennsylvania soil, was known variously as "the Potato Wizard of Pennsylvania," the "Knute Rockne of Spudland" and the "Billy Sunday of Potatodom"; of cancer; in Bellefonte...
...landings on the surface of the planet. In a search for any obvious evidence of life, TV cameras aboard the landers will take pictures of the immediate surroundings. Delicate instruments will sniff and analyze the atmosphere at ground level. Mechanical devices will gulp up, digest and chemically analyze Martian soil for clues to life. In their findings, relayed back to Earth by radio, man may find the exciting evidence that life exists elsewhere in the universe...
...Europeans are fearful that the U.S. plans to make further cuts in its 210,000-man troop level in West Germany; they consider airlifts from the U.S. no substitute for forces permanently based on European soil. No one pretends, however, that ground forces are anything but a first line of defense for Western Europe?especially now that the Soviets have more troops in Eastern Europe, and closer to the West's defense perimeter, than at any time since 1945. The Czechoslovak experience cast grave doubt on the once-fashionable doctrine of graduated response. Behind the troops must...
...successor to retiring West German President Heinrich Liibke. Until now, East Germany has maintained that West Berlin was "a separate political entity." But now the East Germans, eager as always to assert their identity as a sovereign and equal German state, claim that West Berlin is on their soil and belongs to them. They thus regard West German political activity in West Berlin as a direct provocation against their own independence...