Word: soils
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jerusalem through a road cleft into a gorge, under the eyes and weapons of Jordanians perched on the hills. You feel it on the narrow-gauge railway that winds into the city alongside Jordan territory so close that sunflower seeds spat from the train windows fall onto Arab soil. Where Jordan bulges westward, the Israeli beachhead is barely eight miles wide. It takes less than 20 minutes to drive from Tel Aviv on the Mediterranean to the Jordan border...
...that human cancer is caused by a virus, he has put out a book with photographs purporting to show the virus particles under the electron microscope. He grosses $400,000 a year by treating up to 300 patients a day with "Gregomycin," which he calls an antibiotic developed from soil scooped up in the backyard of his San Marino estate. And he claims many cures...
...dangerous situation exists when a large proportion of society is not living on the soil...
...however, cheerful, big-boned William I. Roberts- last of the family to inherit the place - decided to quit the soil. He became a butter & egg salesman, then a partner in a general store, and finally got into the automobile parts business. But he kept on living on the farm. His son, William I. Roberts Jr., grew up, married and brought his bride to the house. His grandson. William I. Roberts III, grew up, married and brought his bride there too. When William I. Roberts IV was born two years ago, four generations were sheltered beneath its old rafters...
Recently, this happy partnership broke down when the French did start looking into one or two Goubert deals. Goubert promptly switched allegiance. "We are indissolubly connected with our brethren of Indian soil," he announced, "and our political separation can no longer be tolerated." Like Big Bill Thompson delivering Cook County, ILL., Goubert got every district in the enclave to rise up in "spontaneous" demonstrations "to free the French-Indian settlements." In one village, Goubert himself unfurled the Indian flag...