Word: soils
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...independence day on June 30; but bloody tribal fighting has raged for months through the Congo. Bitterest of all was in the land of the Lulua. Since the 19th century, when Arab slave raiders drove the frightened Baluba westward into Lulua territory, the Baluba had happily tilled Lulua soil in semi-serfdom in exchange for the right to remain in the area. Then last year, when whispers of Congolese independence filtered out from Leopoldville, the Baluba began declaring themselves free men, tried to take over some of the Lulua land for themselves...
...Township: "The American suburb is the last outpost of democracy, the only level left on which the individual citizen can make his wishes felt, directly and immediately. I think there's something idealistic about the search for a home in the suburbs. Call it a return to the soil. It's something that calls most people some time in their lives.'' When France's Charles de Gaulle saw San Francisco's suburban Palo Alto on his trip to the U.S. six weeks ago, he hailed Suburbia as "magnifique...
Selinger's satisfaction was not universally shared. Argentina-from whose soil Eichmann had been kidnaped by Israeli agents last month-seemed content to accept at face value Israel's pro forma denial that the kidnaping had ever happened. But in New York, Nahum Goldmann, prestigious president of the World Zionist Organization, was openly troubled by Israel's unilateral action and urged that Eichmann should stand trial for mass murder before an international court rather than an Israeli...
...this mood they traveled the U.S. from San Francisco to Manhattan, touching at Philadelphia, Albuquerque, Pittsburgh, Chicago and Washington. They were stuffed with facts about the U.S. educational system, fraternity houses, cement plants, free enterprise, soil-conservation projects and a calendar printing plant. They were briefed by State Department officials and rebriefed by professors, Rotarians and students of Hispanic affairs...
Thus, if an instrument-packed spacecraft were to land softly on Mars to observe Martian weather, soil, vegetation and earth tremors, the information that it would gather might be bottlenecked forever by its slow-acting transmitter. Then, says Van Allen, will be the time "when it will be more efficient to send up a man or a party of men to make observations, digest them and transmit back what is roughly equivalent to a monograph on the subject." Only half facetiously. Van Allen has one more idea about the advan tages of men over instruments in space: "There are many...