Word: soils
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While studying aerial photographs of the Nile Delta after their country's 1967 conquest of the Sinai, Israeli geologists noticed soil markings that were clearly vestiges of two dried-up waterways. One was quickly identified as a silted offshoot of the Nile River called the Pelusiac branch (after the ancient city of Pelusium at its mouth). The nature of the other waterway baffled the geologists until they visited the area and found man-made embankments. With that, they realized that these old mounds marked the route of a remarkable ancient canal that predated the Suez Canal by as many...
...Safe Soil. Next morning Ford met with 33 small-town and suburban mayors from the Midwest. He urged them to push Congress hard to extend the revenue-sharing program, which is due to expire at the end of 1976. During his relaxed and freewheeling exchanges with the mayors, Ford also reinforced his refusal to rescue New York City from its financial crisis (see page 20). Said the President: "Your constituents wouldn't tolerate it if you ran your city as badly as New York City has been...
That afternoon Ford flew to Offutt Air Force Base near Omaha, and within the fenced confines of the base he finally was able to do the crowd mingling he loves. After 15 relaxed minutes on safe Air Force soil, Ford was driven under heavy guard to a downtown hotel, where he attended a conference of business and civic leaders set up by the White House to discuss domestic and economic problems. In a television interview that evening, Ford broadly hint ed that he would favor renewing individual income tax cuts in 1976 if Congress would hold down spending (see ECONOMY...
Physically, the Carter face looks younger than his 51 years, but it also bears some hard lines from a strenuous rural past. The Carters have been stubbornly toiling in the red soil of Georgia for two centuries, and Jimmy was the first member of his family to finish high school. He moved from Georgia Southwestern College to Georgia Tech and then in 1943 to the U.S. Naval Academy. After serving five years on battleships and conventional submarines, he was selected by one of his heroes, Admiral Hyman Rickover, to join the nuclear-submarine program. He was the prelaunch skipper...
Like most of the peoples in the new breed of basket case nation-states, Bengalis live close to the soil, love and have many children, suffer hunger and sickness, work hard, and die young. The Bengalis are by one estimate 95 percent illiterate, which puts them in the running for least educated people in the world. Although Central Africa has the distinction of being the world's most unhealthy region, health conditions in Bangladesh are none too good--the delta is the place where cholera and smallpox originated and is regularly stricken with diseases the West forgot about centuries...