Word: wiping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Proud though he is of his laetas, Dr. Levi knows that they must be eliminated. But he is in no hurry. He points out that millions of dollars were spent in an effort to wipe out the South American fire ants that invaded the southern U.S. in the 1920s. No research was done in advance, and the ants are thriving still. Before attacking the spiders in his museum's basement. Dr. Levi intends to find out whether they have spread to other Harvard buildings in a search for their silverfish food. He wants to learn where the females...
...goal is to prevent world government," says Merwin K. Hart, president of the National Economic Council. "And we don't like fluoridation." "The United Nations," says Wichita Oilman Fred Koch, "was conceived by Communists in Moscow during World War II." Others believe that urban renewal is intended to wipe out the property rights of loyal American citizens, that integration is a deliberate program for the mongrelization of the nation...
Despite the massive destructive potential of these bombs, Clark believes that not even such a Doomsday Machine-should any nation ever be suicidal enough to use one-would completely wipe out human life. In deep caves or far-underground shelters, enough people might find refuge to wait out the radioactivity and emerge to begin again. Concludes Physicist Clark: "The indications are that the human race will survive the H-bomb, though it will be a close thing. Until some more efficient process is discovered, extermination will require a major effort by one or both of the great powers. Lesser states...
...Give the President power to cut tariffs by 50% in return for comparable reductions by other nations, and to wipe out tariffs completely on some specified industrial goods...
...York Herald Tribune's Syndicated Columnist John Crosby, who last October promoted himself from television reviewing to patrolling a cosmic beat: "Mr. Kennedy says Berlin is not negotiable. Why isn't it? Why isn't anything negotiable rather than thermonuclear war? Are we going to wipe out two-and-a-half billion years of slow biological improvement? Over what-Berlin? I agree with Nehru that to go to war under any circumstances for anything at all in our world in our time is utter absurdity. I certainly think Berlin is negotiable, and, as a matter of fact...