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Arizona is lining canals with test chemicals to arrest seepage. Virtually every state has promoted storage and irrigation projects, and the terracing of farm lands to get more water into the soil...
...question that has begun to puzzle and even embarrass proud young Israelis. "We licked 40 million Arabs," said one, "and we were a little more than half a million. We had few arms. But I suppose Germans are not Arabs: and we were fighting on our own soil. Still, I am not convinced...
...Will they work? Five companies this year are marketing such products, most of them priced between $9 and $10 for a package covering about 2,500 sq. ft.: Scott's Halts, Dow's Crab Grass Killer, Vaughan's Pre-Kill, Pax's Crabgrass and Soil Pest Control, Swift's Rid; others, presumably with names like Stomp, Unconditional Surrender...
From such casual miffs can flow great neighborhood rifts. In Berkeley, Calif., John Klein, a labor unionist, got fed up with the host of ills that infested his soil, planted his whole lawn this year with hardy ivy. Last week his status-conscious neighbors decided that this was going too far, and slapped him with a lawsuit for violating a neighborhood compact whose fine print requires that lawns and gardens be kept "in a good and husbandlike manner." None of this would have happened if only somebody in The Bronx had been more alert in the first place...
...come by in the Congo. The talks had hardly begun before Katanga's proud, stubborn Moise Tshombe exploded with wrath at a deal that Kasavubu had made with Tshombe's archenemy, the U.N. The deal: to help clear foreign military advisers-including Tshombe's-from Congo soil...