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...President tells us to go some place, we go." The marines were in Thailand not only by presidential order but at the invitation of the government of Premier Sarit Thanarat-the first time in 600 years that the Thais have asked foreigners in to help them defend their soil. Said a Thai Cabinet minister: "Persons with old-fashioned ideas may not like having foreign troops in Thailand, but in these times a country has to depend on collective security." Piling into Thai army trucks, the marines sped through streets where saffron-robed Buddhist monks wandered with begging bowls, and past...
Nature branded a curse on the Northeast. Except in a narrow coastal belt, rain is so scant that 87% of the area consists of parched, brown sertāo, a rolling hinterland matted with cactus-tough scrub where peasants hack at the hard soil with primitive hoes. Two months ago, the first rains in eight months brought a green fuzz to the sertāo. But drought had already ruined this year's crop of beans, corn and manioc-root flour, mainstays of the peasant diet. Famine swept the sertāo, sending thousands of camponeses to the towns...
...compromise scheme to soothe the disappointed West Germans and Dutch -and to give Europe a greater sense of participation-was an American proposal to furnish all NATO governments with some more precise information about the stockpiles of U.S. atomic weapons based on their soil, including a general outline of the targets assigned to each weapon. A more tangible substitute for a nuclear striking force: Washington announced that five missile-armed Polaris submarines henceforth will be assigned to NATO...
Gourmet's Delight. The reason for all the trouble is that most syndets are made of petroleum derivatives that are all but indestructible. Instead of breaking down in the soil and becoming food for bacteria as does soap - a nonsynthetic detergent made of animal and vegetable fats - the syndet remains active long after it goes down the drain, bubbling on and on through rivers and lakes and often seeping through the earth from septic tanks to well water (where its foamy presence may be a valuable warning that sewage is seeping in too). European waterways also foam with detergent...
...sales rocketing. United Fruit was reaping profits by merely filling orders in the eleven American and European nations where it has sales offices. Then its plantations in Panama and Honduras were all but wiped out by a combination of wind, floods and the Panama disease, which by infecting the soil puts banana land out of cultivation almost indefinitely. Small Ecuadorian growers jumped in to capture 25% of the world banana market. Meantime, United Fruit's own share of the world market, which in 1948 stood at over 40% skidded to below 30%-though it managed to hang...