Word: soils
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...used to drag the attacker under with France. They cannot be used on routine, tit-for-tat bombing missions as the war games suggested. As for the frantic, 15-weapon battlefield broadside, so lavish a use of atomic weapons in so small an area (particularly on French soil) amounted to nothing more than an old-fashioned artillery barrage, reduced to absurdity. And why move into the area 15 minutes later? What would be left to attack? How could one protect tanks and infantry against fire and intense radioactivity...
Founded in 1959 by Ringier Verlag, a Zofingen publishing house, Blick wasted no time violating the national sense of propriety. "A foreign pest on national soil," cried one member of Parliament, after nosy Blick reporters demanded more than government handouts; orders went out that shut every official door on Blick's newsmen. Three Lucerne businessmen circulated a flyer labeled Pfiff-which means the skirl of a whistle, as blown by a referee calling a foul-that wishfully pronounced Blick dead. Instead, Blick's Lucerne circulation jumped from...
...belligerence looks very bad for Malaysia. Indonesia's army, largely Soviet-supplied, is the most powerful in the area, Malaysia's one of the weakest. But Malaysia does not stand alone. Britain and Australia are pledged by treaty to defend her and both have planes and troops on Malaysian soil. The United States has promised Britain its full support...
Without Bicker or Bother. Below the northern tier is the Black Belt, cutting a 100-mile-deep, 14-county swath across the state. The Black Belt got its name not so much for its concentration of Negroes as for its fertile dark brown soil. Once the heart of Alabama's cotton kingdom, the rolling, sparsely populated belt has changed radically in recent years: the houses where cotton sharecroppers once lived are now stuffed with hay to feed cattle, for livestock raising has become Alabama's No. 1 agricultural business...
...underdeveloped Brazil, the state of Paraná occupies a vital niche. From its fertile soil come 45% of the country's coffee, 90% of its newsprint, and huge quantities of corn, cotton and beans. Last week Brazil's most prosperous farm state was going up in flames-victim of one of the worst fires in any country's history. Scattered over 50,000 sq. mi., or more than half the state, the fires reduced vast forests of pine, cedar and eucalyptus to ashes, turned coffee plantations and pastures into scorched wastelands, devoured homes and destroyed thousands...