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...soil in which the F.L.N. grew was provided by French rule in Algeria. The great French civilizing mission brought many good things: an end to cholera, typhus and malaria, the elimination of tribal wars and devastating famines, the beginnings of industrialization. But France also took away the best lands the tribes had owned, and, as the Moslem population rocketed upward, the remaining flocks and inefficient farms could not keep pace...
...transplanted Wellesley production takes in new soil, the Loeb will be offering a bouquet tomorrow...
...assumption-well-proved in Massachusetts politics-that the Irish are never so rough as when they turn on each other, Massachusetts has waited expectantly for months for the battle between Teddy and Eddie. Last week, with both back on native Boston soil after tours of foreign lands, the clash was ready to be joined. Massachusetts Attorney General Edward J. ("Eddie") McCormack Jr., 38, favorite nephew of House Speaker John McCormack, was ready to announce this week that he will indeed be a candidate for the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senator; Edward R. ("Teddy") Kennedy, 30, youngest brother of the President...
...fourth atomic power''; this obviously would make West Germany an atomic power as well, for despite NATO's control over them, nuclear warheads would be in the hands of the Bundeswehr. Most of the American nuclear weapons on the Continent are already on West German soil but under strict U.S. control...
...such as celery and mushrooms, Chun King produces for itself-and here the profiting from waste enters. When Paulucci found out that the dirt in which the mushrooms grew was good for only one crop yet still contained rich compost, he started a flourishing business selling it as potting soil...