Word: soils
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...daughter's wedding day, a request more personal than official. Kissinger took it to the Israelis, who granted it. Then there was the time when the Israelis wanted to send a party, accompanied by rabbis, to retrieve the bodies of some of their dead soldiers from Egyptian soil. The request might have been laughed at earlier, but found immediate sympathy and was approved...
...Mars during the U.S.'s first soft-landing attempt in 1975-76; after falling down an ice slope during an expedition to Antarctica. Vishniac's "Wolf trap" is the size of a cigar box and contains adhesive-coated strings that will be dragged through Mars' arid soil, then reeled into the container, where any life forms stuck to the strings will be detected. -Died. Marian Young Taylor, 65, known to radio listeners for 32 years as Martha Deane, the relaxed, knowledgeable interview hostess on New York's WOR; of cancer; in Manhattan. A onetime newspaper reporter...
...strength of the American soil which she loved so much and understood so well." Thus Violinist Yehudi Menuhin, 57, remembers Cornhusker Willa Cather, who died in 1947. In 1930 Menuhin, then a 14-year-old New York-born musical prodigy, first met the middle-aged novelist from Red Cloud, Neb., in Paris, and a fast friendship was formed. Last week Menuhin flew from his London home to Lincoln, Neb., to highlight the University of Nebraska's celebrations on the centennial of Gather's birth. His contribution: a family concert. His two sisters, Pianists Hephzibah, 53, and Yaltah...
...Gurion soon left the land for the labor movement. He started out organizing Jewish workers and wrote for a small labor weekly. Eventually his political activities on behalf of Zionism so angered Turkish authorities that they exiled Ben-Gurion and forbade him ever "to set foot on Palestinian soil." He went to the U.S., met and married a Polish-born Brooklyn nurse named Paula Munweiss. After he became famous, she liked to tease him by saying that he had spent part of their wedding night at a Zionist meeting...
...projector starts and the screen stays black--we hear a "haunting," "exotic" flute and soon the clatter of oxen's feet. After an interminably long time, the camera finds the cattle, and immediately pans in on the cloven hooves scuffing through the dusty soil. Thereby Rooks has introduced what turns out to be a major motif in the movie--feet. The film's fascination with this part of the anatomy is endless. When Siddhartha pads solemnly through the forest in search of you know what, we become familiar with his dirty toes. And when Siddhartha has 'crossed the river" (this...