Word: soils
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Alliance for Progress could merely help Duvalier to help himself, or could do tremendous good for the country, where the densest population in Latin America starves on unarable soil. Technical aid in conservation could halt the erosion that has left only one-third of the country cultivable, but the Point Four program has failed here because it has substituted symbolic gestures for real aid. Unfortunately, a birth control program, although one of the most effective kinds of aid must, temporarily, be left to the Roman Catholic Church in Port-au-Prince, and the Voodoo leaders of the interior...
...nominated by one of your readers for Man of the Year. I feel that he should be Man of the Year for his greed, which has cost the world the lives of two of the greatest men of this century: Patrice Lumumba-that rebellious son of the African soil-and Dag Hammarskjold...
...recently that Portugal's lush, Rhode Island-sized colony of Goa on India's west coast was becoming increasingly "intolerable." Last week, for all Neutralist Nehru's past protestations that India would never use force tp eject the Portuguese from the last European colony on Indian soil, his armed forces were building up on Goa's 180-mile border, and Nehru himself announced that he was "on the verge" of military intervention...
...earned his board and tuition by milking cows at the agricultural college; later he helped send a younger sister and brother through college. In 1920 he moved to New Hampshire as an agricultural instructor with the state university's extension staff and an expert on crops and soil conservation for the state government...
...Saturnalia. D.T. Niles, 53, general secretary of the East Asia Christian Conference and top spokesman for the Asian churches, put it neatly: "The Christian Gospel is a seed. If you sow it, you get a plant. The plant will bear the mark of both the seed and the soil. The trouble with the missionaries was that they brought Christianity to us as a potted plant. Now we are breaking the pot and putting the plant in our own soil...