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...nation and to the world, that John Kennedy was looking far beyond the threat to Berlin, preparing for the menace of a Communist aggression that has no global limits. The military buildup he has begun is directed not so much at the possibility of war on German soil as at the reality of unspecified crises still to come. In this farseeing aim lies the significance of his speech. Beyond its impact on the Berlin question - and impact it will surely have - the nation's new mood and new strength should douse any future brush fires that Khrushchev chooses...
...good-luck charms. In the south are the hard-working Annamese peasants, squatting under conical hats of palm leaves in the brimming Mekong Delta marshes to plant the rice that is South Viet Nam's chief source of sustenance and a major export. The delta's deep black soil is some of the world's richest, could produce still more food if developed with roads, modern farming techniques. It is this great food potential that makes Ho Chi Minh and his hungry North Vietnamese press southward toward...
...sorts, over issues of a sort, was being fought last week by two countries who were sort of friends the day before hostilities. Tunisia and France, joined in the dubious nostalgia of ex-colony and motherland, were firing at each other on Tunisian soil and exchanging bitter charges in the august echo chamber of the United Nations Security Council...
...nilly, saw them fill up in the rainy season, then slowly and uselessly dry out when the rains stopped. Furtado plans to send the stored water through irrigation canals, increase irrigated acreage from 37,000 acres to 247,000. He hopes to wean farmers away from one or two soil-killing crops, put wasteland to work, build silos and warehouses to store food for lean years. Electricity lines are already snaking into the northeastern backlands, industry is getting tax reductions and other incentives to move in to make use of plentiful labor. Last year Furtado's planners handled...
Whenever it is ready, the N-bomb will be a deadly weapon. It would have no ordinary fallout, but its neutrons themselves would make many things radioactive, and the intensity of this effect would depend on the local character of the soil and buildings. Attacking troops might have to wait hours or days before moving in to the enemy's undamaged fortifications...