Word: soils
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Illinois Senator challenged the Administration's contention that the "fair housing" clause is in line with Congress' constitutional power to regulate interstate commerce. Thundered Ev: "If you can tell me how interstate commerce is involved in selling or renting a house fixed to the soil, or where there is federal jurisdiction, I'll go out and eat the chimney off the house...
...called a rare press conference last month in his palace in Port-au-Prince. "It is urgent," he said, "for every Haitian-wherever he is-to come home and work with the President and Cabinet and with every foreign investor that Haiti needs for its development. The Haitian soil belongs to every Haitian." The "explosive stage" of his revolution was over, Papa Doc promised, and now Haiti was entering the more humane "administrative stage...
...simulate a mid-air breakup, the scientists dropped bomb parts from a high-flying plane at White Sands Missile Range, then photographed the craters made by the parts as they hit the ground. The pictures were rushed to Palomares, where searchers looked in vain for similar patterns on Spanish soil...
Back at their computers, other scientists of Sandia determined that the radioactive contamination of Spanish soil had been caused entirely by the two recovered bombs that had broken apart on impact. Had another bomb shattered on land, the level of radio activity would have been higher. Thus the scientists assumed that either the missing bomb had not broken apart on hitting land, or it had fallen into the sea. Further ballistics analysis and wind data enabled the Sandia computers eventually to plot the probable trajectory of the missing bomb and locate where it had hit the water. Their calculations tended...
Charles de Gaulle's insistence that NATO forces get off French soil has not only distressed his 14 NATO allies but confused a good many people who find it difficult to follow the general's sometimes Byzantine reasoning. Last week, replying to an unsuccessful censure motion by opposition Deputies who disagree with De Gaulle's tactics, French Premier Georges Pompidou delivered the most lucid exposition to date of the De Gaulle attitude toward NATO. Its remarkable contention: NATO is a U.S. device that in effect spares U.S. and Russian territory in any nuclear conflict by inviting...