Word: soils
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Reader Battistini correctly points out that Chinese withdrawal and Vietnamese nationhood were negotiated separately. Whether Ho was really satisfied with an "independence" that left foreign policy in French hands and 15,000 French troops on Vietnamese soil remains debatable...
Returning to Turin in triumph, Fiat's normally aloof President Vittorio Valletta, 82, was cagier than ever, refused to discuss particulars. But if a great many details can be worked out, Fiat will build and help to staff the first fully Western-designed auto company on Soviet soil. (When Russia began producing autos in the 1920s, it bought some machinery and hired engineers from Henry Ford.) Officials of Fiat, which sells more cars in Europe than any other manufacturer, believe the agreement gives them a substantial lead over competitors in the only major untapped auto market left...
...benefits to man are countless. The fragile inky cap is delicious if gathered young and cooked promptly. Lichen, formed by the union of fungi and algae, eats into rock, prepares it to become new soil. The molds that make Camembert are fungi; so are the yeasts that leaven bread and ferment grapes, grains, berries, cacti, honey and camel's milk into alcohol. Yeasts keep industry in ferment as well, assist in the manufacture of paint remover, antifreeze, synthetic rubber, adhesives, cosmetics and perfume. Yeast-feeding produces better pelts in mink, more honey from bees, faster growth in trout...
Other Castellamare residents argue that the soil was gradually loosened by moisture leaching down from hilltop lawn sprinklers. In any case, homeowners in Pacific Palisades and other "view" areas last week bombarded city officials with demands that all hillside construction be halted immediately. And no one was watering the daisies...
Denying rumors from Germany that the U.S. was considering withdrawal of its nuclear weapons from Europe, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara asserted: "In 1961 I reported that there were literally thousands of warheads on European soil. They have continued to increase, and twelve months from today the number will be 100% higher than in 1961." McNamara proposed the creation of a defense ministers' committee to set up an improved consultation procedure on the use of nuclear weapons-in effect, a "hotline" network to replace the present dangerously slow diplomatic channels. The members would presumably be the U.S., Britain, West Germany...