Word: problem
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...501st Signature. One thing they could not change was the fact that Khrushchev was coming to Paris just as the Fifth Republic unheroically survived its most serious parliamentary crisis to date. The issue was the country's farm problem, which last month burst out in ugly mob rioting at Amiens and last week produced a crisis in the National Assembly that would have toppled a government in Fourth Republic days, before De Gaulle came back to power...
...Gaulle government untied the link between farm and industrial prices in 1958, farmers' prices have dropped 11% while the rest of the country has crested on an industrial boom. Last month the powerful farmers' organizations demanded a special session of the Assembly to take up the farm problem...
...hard-sell literature of television commercials, the fastest-growing category offers panaceas for unusual problems. There is a floor covering for viewers who have elephants running through their kitchens and a deodorant that improves the social attractions of marble statues. There have been pens that write on butter, watches for attachment to boat propellers, electric shavers for Georgians who want to shave peaches and for kids who like to shave balloons. But the season's most ingenious problem-solver is just gurgling in: an instant lather for men who like to shave under water...
...problem had badgered divers as far back as 5000 B.C.. when the Sumerians spun the tale of a swimmer who sought the weed of eternal life beneath the waves. Down through the centuries, woodcuts show submerged men hopefully sucking on bags full of air or puffing on tubes reaching to the surface. Looking for something better, Cousteau tried an oxygen lung based on a design developed by the British as early as 1878. He almost killed himself. He did not know the fatal flaw of oxygen: it becomes toxic at depths below 30 ft.* Twice Cousteau had convulsive spasms...
...sometimes occasions what we might call 'forced marriages.' " From now on, ordered Father Daday, boys and girls who insist on going steady will be barred from honor societies, the student council, sports and other extracurricular activities. Commented one senior boy: "A lot of adults recognize the problem, but they don't do anything about it. I'm happy to see someone with guts enough to stand...