Word: soils
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Washington, and it was up to Jack Kennedy to make the decisions. The demand for simultaneous announcements offered no substantive problems. Neither did the requirement for declaring against U-2 flights; President Eisenhower had ordered such overflights discontinued shortly after U-2 Pilot Francis Gary Powers crashed on Soviet soil last May, and President Kennedy had already determined to maintain the ban. The third Soviet stipulation was much more difficult to accept, and it was to become a major reason for the strict security set up around the two U.S. airmen. But Kennedy had no choice but to agree, since...
...encourage planting, the U.N. also has rushed in seed, is handing out 10,000 hoes so that the Balubas can sow the dry, sandy soil before the end of the planting season in February. But some of the starving tribesmen are too weak to bury their own dead, much less till the soil. Others are so hungry that they toss the hoes aside and simply eat the seed...
Poulenc wrote Gloria, as he writes all of his music, in his 16th century country home in Touraine, because "like wine, which can grow only in its own soil, I can compose only in France." Originally, he intended it for one of his favorite singers, Italian Soprano Rosanna Carteri ("She has a voice with lipstick and powder"), but at the work's premiere the principal part was sung by U.S. Negro Soprano Adele Addison, who so impressed Poulenc that he interrupted a rehearsal to shout: "Parfait! Parfait! La perfection!" Poulenc plans to write a new opera for La Scala...
Other members of NATO, of course, have other ideas. France will allow no nuclear weapons on its soil that it cannot control, for a rather broader reason than perverseness. General de Gaulle will explode a third bomb in the Sahara this fall, and although it is likely to take more than seven years for France to build an arsenal of its own, he insists on constructing a purely French striking force...
...allowing the farmers from four to eight years to decide whether or not they will continue to farm, the government ought gradually to withdraw price supports. Coupled with a reduction in surplus, this action ought to leave the market on a fairly self-regulating basis. The payments-in-kind Soil Bank must remain in existence, an agricultural safety-valve to prevent the accumulation of further surplus...