Word: soils
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...drumfire of abuse. In his shabby capital of Teheran, a small portion of the population lives in splendor while the rest exist in the squalor of centuries, washing themselves in the open gutter jubes which double as sewers and water mains. In the arid countryside, the poor scrape the soil at wages of 60? a day while absentee landlords flatly refuse to follow the Shah's lead in giving up some of their property to the peasants. In recent years the cost of living has risen steadily. The nation's foreign exchange has been drained dangerously...
Died. Hugh Hammond Bennett, 79, chief of the U.S. Soil Conservation Service from its founding in 1935 until his 1952 retirement, a folksy Cassandra whose warnings that the U.S. must improve its conservation practices were largely ignored before the great dust storms of the 19305s; of cancer; in Burlington, N.C. A North Carolina farmer's son who had done Government conservation work for 32 budget-lean years prior to setting up the SCS, Bennett won one of his first big appropriations by leading several Congressmen to a Capitol window, pointing to a cloud of dust, and saying: "There goes...
...their connection with America, I fear. I think they know-or guess-that when the Hundred Years' War between the big powers boils up into shooting again, both sides will hang back as long as possible from the irrevocable insult: direct attack on each other's home soil...
Guinea and newly independent Cameroon brawled openly. Rising to attack the Mali Federation-Libya, Tunisia and Morocco-for permitting foreign bases on their soil, Guinea's Foreign Affairs Chief Abdoulaye Diallo also lit into Cameroon for permitting French troops to stay. Cameroon Delegate Charles Okala promptly pointed out that the Guinea police state had accepted arms from Czechoslovakia, hinting at the well-known fact that some of these weapons ended up in the hands of dissident Cameroon tribes men. "If there are troops in Cameroon, whose fault is it?" Okala demanded. "We have all tried...
...countryside, are out of work a third of the time, make an average of $1,700 a year, are not covered by most federal employment laws. All this makes the valley, once the scene of bitter strikes by the Okies and Arkies of Grapes of Wrath fame, fertile soil for labor unrest...