Word: soils
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...read. It truly gave an inside picture of the never-ending problems that Communism has bestowed upon this underdeveloped country. It should give the people of America the courage to help win this "silent war" before we too are confronted with the evils of Communism upon our free American soil...
...membership in NATO is much preferable to an independent, nationally-minded West German military establishment. Kennedy said--and quite rightly--that West Germany's nine divisions are under the command of 15 other NATO nations, and that these other nations themselves have 22 or 23 divisions on German soil. A divided and militarily second-rate Germany may be a cause for some worry--Kennedy seemed to be saying--but not cause for the sort of terror that the Russian revanchist myth is based on. Also--if Kennedy meant it--the Russians should be pleased...
...also mobilizing for trouble. Orders from Washington approved by President Kennedy sent the Little Rock, the aircraft carriers Valley Forge and Franklin D. Roosevelt and coveys of support vessels toward the Dominican coast. Aboard the Valley Forge were 1,800 marines, with helicopters to land them on Dominican soil. At the airbase near the inland Dominican city of Santiago de los Caballeros, Commanding General Rodriguez ordered the arrest of every Trujillo agent in the city whom the uncles were apt to count on for their bloodbath. His younger brother, Air Force Deputy Chief of Staff Pedro Santiago Rodriguez Echaverria, persuaded...
Elaborate Precautions. Dr. Dombrowski got interested in ancient life when he noted that the warm, allegedly curative brine that comes to the surface near his laboratory at Bad Nauheim was full of living bacteria. They could not originate in the soil, he decided, because they are present in the water when it is still 600 ft. below the surface. Besides, they were a type whose modern representatives live in the sea. And along with the bacteria, the brine carried fossil pollen from trees that grew in the Permian...
...team from Rutgers University is working on a study to find out if soil is being formed in Antarctica, or whether the continent is simply too cold for soil making...