Word: soils
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stirring wakefully. Its coming to consciousness promised both treasures and trouble. Last week the three corners of this triangular continent made headlines-in Egypt, where a young King sought release from British control and power over restless mobs; in Morocco, where Americans rolled out big bomber bases on French soil; in South Africa, where a Prime Minister, trying to disenfranchise his country's colored voters, was stopped by the courts (see below). Since all of these were troubled waters, the Communists fished there. But the conflicts of power, pride and race in awakening Africa existed with or without...
When he introduced legume crops to improve the soil, some religious villagers opposed the plowing-in of the live green growth. Tactfully Holmes broke down prejudices, stilled native hostility. The results were spectacular: in Etawah's 102 villages (pop. 79,000), food production jumped nearly 50% in three years. Malaria was eliminated; herds were freed from rinderpest...
...London, J. B. Priestley heard that an overenthusiastic admirer, after reading that Priestley "longed for the sun and soil of Arizona," was air-expressing him a shoe box full of the state's soil. Grumbled the novelist: "I would have preferred citrus fruit...
...appeal is to the "tremendously fertile and socially significant fraction of young men and women in our universities." He says that "it is among these fresh and precious souls, well lubricated, enflamed and integrated with beer, romantic love and lusty singing that this allegory will find its most fertile soil...
Died. Knut Hamsun, 92, 1920 Nobel Prizewinner for his novel Growth of the Soil; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Grimstad, Norway (see FOREIGN NEWS...