Word: soils
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...source of trouble is that The Wall is an adaptation, something replanted in alien, resisting soil. With The Wall, the spatial element is an essential 'one, which the stage, unlike the cinema, cannot convey. The Wall in the theater proves neither personal in appeal nor panoramic in effect; it is too diffused to have impact as a story, too restricted for vast horror as a scene. A Diary of Anne Frank, by remaining the chronicle of a girl and confining its tragedy to a garret, could expand a family's fate into that of an entire race...
...adviser of Richard Nixon, Lon L. Fuller, Carter Professor of General Jurisprudence, hit hard at the Democratic farm program. He said the system of controlling the market by issuing farmers marketing allotments makes for a "static farm system, unable to respond to change in soil, crop, or market conditions...
When the demand tapered off after Korea, the government stepped in to buy up surplus, to guarantee stable prices, and, in general, to prevent a market crisis. Congress instituted the Soil Bank program to reduce the increasing surplus by paying the farmer to take land out of cultivation...
Against the fervent and dramatic urgings of Party Leader Hugh Gaitskell, the annual conference of the British Labor Party last week voted a sensational course: to scrap British nuclear weapons, to eject Britain's U.S. allies from airbases on British soil, to pull out of the NATO alliance and count Britain out of the cold war. The decision cracked the crumbling Labor Party wide open. It doomed the Opposition Laborites-who have failed to win the confidence of British voters in three straight elections-to further years in the political wilderness...
From the sidewalk, Herrera's new bank is hard to distinguish from all-the other international financial agencies that root their initials deep in the bureaucratic soil of Washington. IADB's planned capitalization is $959,476,000; by far the biggest share ($450 million) will come from the U.S. with the rest to be contributed by 19 other hemisphere republics* (see chart...