Word: summer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...beach, too, offers opportunities for various kinds of East-West relationships. German families, dispersed in a divided Germany, have tearful reunions on the golden sands. Polish black-marketeers, who drive down to Bulgaria every summer loaded with sheepskins, do a brisk seaside business with West Europeans. And everyone-capitalist or Communist-can now refresh themselves with Kaba Kara under the brilliant Bulgarian sun. Once regarded in the Communist world as the very symbol of American and capitalist decadence. Coca-Cola is now bottled in Bulgaria under U.S. license...
...played down to their past reputation. In one horrendous doubleheader in Houston, the Astros pasted Met pitchers for a total of 27 runs. The Mets lost 3-2 to the last-place Expos when Rookie Gary Gentry yielded an embarrassing total of three home runs in one inning. As summer waned, the New Yorkers found themselves in third place, 9½ games off the pace...
...common effort, even Israel and the Arab countries have cooperated, and still do. Last week, for the first summer in 40 years, London's "situation summary" did not list a single menacing locust swarm. The FAO was pleased but not triumphant. Quite likely, as the FAO was the first to point out, an atypical lack of rainfall had inhibited breeding, since the locust's eggs must absorb their weight in water to hatch. Thus the FAO cautioned against concluding that the locust had simply dropped out of the picture. "He is still a global menace in a trough...
Making Contact. Even so, the FAO feels that its program is succeeding. In 1958, locusts devoured 167,000 tons of crops in Ethiopia, starving thousands. Last summer the anti-locust London Center got reports of gathering clouds of locusts that posed an even greater threat. From weather satellite pictures of cloud formations, trackers could map wind patterns. Since locusts ride the winds, spray planes knew where to go. Once they had made contact, they dumped their loads of spray through atomizers, one right after the other, until the swarms were stopped. On the ground, pesticide squads struck breeding areas...
...This summer, 21 of the Polish frescoes, together with carvings and graffiti from Faras, are being shown for the first time in Western Europe at West Germany's Villa Hügel in Essen. They have caused something of a sensation in artistic circles. Says Professor Kurt Bittel, head of the West German Archaeological Institute: "The miracle of Faras is a triple one: that these works were found, that they could be preserved, and that they existed...