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...week, however, he publicly gave NATO a timetable for getting out of France. De Gaulle told his audience that France would "modify successively the measures currently practiced" before the North Atlantic Treaty expires in 1969. "It means re-establishing a normal situation of sovereignty, so that everything French, including soil, sky, sea and forces, and any foreign element in France will in the future be under French command alone...
...Food Minister, Chidambaram Subramaniam, but much of the problem lies in India's backward agriculture and age-old dietary habits. India's land produces only about half as much per acre as U.S. land, largely because of primitive farming implements and practices, lack of pesticides and fertilizer, soil exhaustion and uncertain water supply. Besides, India's burgeoning population-12 million new mouths per year-has simply outstripped the country's ability to produce enough food to feed...
Building operations on the hill stopped while a team of 15 archaeologists including De Lumley's wife, Marie-Antoinette, moved in, first with a bull dozer, then with trowels, knives, surgical instruments and brushes to carefully scrape away the dirt. "In removing 32 ft. of soil," De Lumley says, "we stripped away 200,000 years of man's history...
...force and decided to start one. His name is still legend in law enforcement circles for the methods that he pioneered. His stiff rules of conduct are now standardized as a code of ethics for police across the country. His department was the first to use blood, fiber and soil analysis in detection (1907); the first to use the lie detector (a Berkeley cop collaborated in inventing the polygraph in 1921); it was an early developer of a fingerprint classification system (1924) and the first to use radio-equipped squad cars...
Meteor Bombardment. The Russians confirmed that Luna 9 had found no dust on the moon. Instead, it hit a surface that consisted of hard, porous, volcanic soil formed from lava that had crumbled during billions of years of drastic temperature changes and bombardment by meteors and solar particles. Inhospitable as it is, such a surface could probably bear the weight of both heavy space vehicles and men. The major obstacle remaining before man can fly to the moon, concluded Soviet Academy of Sciences President Mstislav Keldysh, "is the problem of returning a cosmonaut to earth. I think it is easier...