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...Guevara's Bristol Britannia finally landed back in Havana last week, the home folks cheered, and the rest of the hemisphere permitted itself a mighty sigh. Not only had Che done his best to steal the spotlight at the Alliance for Progress conference, but he managed to sow sweet confusion at every step along the road home, leaving behind one government toppled and another muttering dark thoughts. He even found a way to dangle a coexistence cigar before the U.S. White House and depart having given that implacable foe something to think about...
When he was an enlisted man, all the officers were monsters or morons. Now that he has an expensive home, family responsibilities and $20,000 a year, he is suddenly against Khrushchev and all like him, who must have loved him for all he did to help them sow disrespect in the old days...
Explosion. From all the evidence, killers do a fairly effective job if applied properly. Since the chemicals kill all seed, whether weed or good grass, the trick is to sow grass lawns in the early fall only, and to apply pre-emergent chemicals in the spring. By that time, all the good grass will have caught hold, and the killer chemicals will attack only the germinating seeds-the crab grass and other undesirable weeds-that remain. Even if used properly, however, the killers may cause some harmful side effects...
Already the seeds of Communism had been sown in Laos, and they would doubtless sprout and grow during any drawn-out peace conference. But in the long perspective of the battle for Southeast Asia, the Laotian showdown could sow important seeds of its own. The President had faced up to the crisis with great coolness and style. He was newly familiar with the face of the enemy on the battle line, and newly familiar with the weapons at his command. In leading an attack on free Asia, Nikita Khrushchev also contributed to the seasoning of the West's cold...
...official seal. But they were forgeries, and only the latest of a series with which the Communists have plagued the West in recent years. Chief Communist forgery center seems to be a clandestine installation in East Berlin's outlying OberSchöneweide. Most forgeries have been designed to sow discord between the Western allies or between them and the uncommitted nations of the world. Usually they are suitably low-keyed and close enough to the real thing to achieve at least passing effect...