Word: soils
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...point was underlined last week by Lord Home, Britain's Foreign Secretary, in a rebuke to the British intellectuals who keep equating Russian bases in Cuba and U.S. missile bases abroad. Said he: "We sit in Europe covered by every kind of missile directed at us from Russian soil. If you bargain between one base and another, you'll not get rid of one Russian base pointed at Europe, and you'll lose one of your own bases...
Satellite Procession. Khrushchev was busy all week trying to prove precisely the opposite. To the Russian people, who were kept almost totally in the dark about their government's attempt to plant rockets 6,000 miles from Soviet soil, Khrushchev was playing the role of the stern defender of peace on the side of plucky little Cuba. But it was not so easy to fob off Communism's professionals...
...funeral pyre." But these were only what diplomats have come to call "missile letters." Never before had the Kremlin risked using missiles themselves to push its policies. It had not permitted Warsaw Pact allies to have offensive missiles, and had never, in fact, dared allow them off the soil of the Soviet Union. Why had Khrushchev done so now in the Caribbean, virtually an American lake thousands of miles from the nearest point of direct Soviet interest...
Neither the U.S. acceptance nor the Soviet announcement mentioned an earlier Russian proposal involving liquidation of NATO rocket bases in Turkey in return for the dismantling of the rockets on Cuban soil...
...German-descended citizens of Pflugerville, Texas (pop.: 400), the most important things in life, in approximate order, are chores, church and football. White-faced cattle graze on Pflugerville's gently rolling farms, and snowy cotton flourishes in the rich Blacklands soil. On the Sabbath, almost the whole town turns out at the Lutheran church. But Friday is football day, and then placid Pflugerville twangs with tension. Each time the high school's Pflugerville Panthers take the field, they carry with them the winningest record in schoolboy football. In 52 straight games, stretching back to 1957, Pflugerville High...