Word: soils
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Obviously, the slaying of a Cuban national on Cuban soil was embarrassing to the U.S.; yet the inevitable revelation of the cumbersome cover-up was even more embarrassing. Last week Jackson, after first accepting, declined his invitation to the White House as a Medal of Honor winner, locked the doors to his San Jose home and disconnected his telephone. As for Szili, he was having some second thoughts. Said he at week's end: "Maybe I should have kept my mouth shut...
...years to life. But at the request of the Federal Government that he act "in the national interest," New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller commuted Molina's sentence, sent the killer back to Cuba-with the threat that if The Hook ever again set foot on U.S. soil, he would spend the rest of his days behind bars...
Erosion & Mosquitoes. To keep the valley's best soil from being continually washed into the river by the area's heavy rains, TVA has coaxed the farmers into using a variety of conservation practices: planting trees, contour plowing, diversifying crops, enriching their land with TVA-developed fertilizers. One byproduct of the reforestation has been the cre ation of a $500 million private forest-products industry. TVA has also fought mosquitoes to lick the valley's malaria, which in 1934 had infected more than 30% of the people living along the river in northern Alabama. Since...
...scattered southwestern cotton fields, the slow, soft green of spring is sprouting against a strange background: glittering gridirons of broad black stripes. Paper-thin strips of polyethylene plastic stretch across the fields, warming the soil, conserving water, choking out weeds, protecting the land against the erosion of wind and rain. And if the coddled cotton crop that is even now poking tentatively into view grows close to its rich promise, its payoff may be the beginning of an agricultural revolution...
...first large-scale tryout of mechanized plasticulture. A tractor huffs across the field trailing a 20-in. band of black film from a big roll. Two disks cut furrows under the film's edges, rubber wheels press the edges down, and another pair of disks covers them with soil. Planting is done by hollow cone-shaped spikes that punch holes in the film 8 in. apart and insert slugs of moist vermiculite (puffed-up mica) that contain a cottonseed and carefully calculated doses of fertilizer, insecticide and fungicide. Snuggled in the warmth and moisture under the film, the seeds...