Word: soils
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ground crew began unrolling a huge red carpet, miscalculated the distance and arrived at the ramp of the plane with a dismaying roll left over. For a moment it looked as though the President of the U.S. might have to hurdle the carpet before he set foot on Brazilian soil, but an enterprising MATS ground crewman saved the situation by quickly cutting off the extra roll with his pocketknife, tucking the ragged edge under the ramp...
Stonefaced, Italian-born Gambler Frank Costello, 69, lost one more foothold in his fight to stay on U.S. soil. The U.S. Court of Appeals unanimously upheld a year-old federal court order stripping him of his citizenship because he called himself a real estate dealer instead of a bootlegger, when he was naturalized in 1925. But Costello will probably not go anywhere for a while: he is still serving a five-year sentence for evading more than $28,000 in income taxes...
...Minute. The farm message had not been reshaped, but it had been restyled to make it softer. The President made only two specific recommendations: 1) expansion of the long-term soil bank "conservation reserve" to 60 million acres from the present 28 million, and 2) a new wheat program that would combine repeal of all wheat production controls with a lower support price, based on market prices rather than on the outdated "parity" formula. A new wheat program was "imperatively needed," said Ike-the present program is costing the Federal Government $1,000 a minute, $1.5 million...
...commanding general, Twelfth Fighter Command in Africa, deputy commander Northwest African Coastal Air Force, and before D-day took over the Ninth Fighter Command. On D-day plus one, Quesada landed his own P-38 fighter plane on the Normandy beach ("My first step was not on European soil-it was on a dead German...
Columbus, planting on American soil the banner of the Immaculate Conception, "ees shown as a youth," Dali explains in his macaronic idiom, "because thees painting represent le dream of Columbus, and youth ees le time for dreams. Other figures are monks and sailors qui come along weeth Columbus." Modestly he adds that the monk completely hidden in his cowl is actually a self-portrait. The giant sea urchin in the foreground represents "le real shape of le earth as discovered by le American Satellite Explorer Two" (actually, Vanguard Beta). In his dream, Dali's young Columbus meets not Indians...