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...Joshua Lederberg, Nobel-prizewinning geneticist of Stanford - University, doubted that instruments that do not actually land on a planet can determine whether it has life. Even if there are no large, conspicuous plants or animals to see from a distance, the soil may swarm with microscopic creatures, as does the earth's. Lederberg suggests equipping an interplanetary probe with a sort of artificial anteater that will stick out a tongue of transparent tape, touch it to the planet's soil, and draw it back again for study by a built-in microscope. The enlarged pictures of dust particles...
...world has vast amounts of empty space left-particularly in Australia, Africa and Latin America (where the rate of population growth is even higher than in Asia). Brazil's vast Amazon basin, amounting to nearly one-twentieth of the land surface of the earth, is still virgin soil. In Ethiopia alone, more than 180 million of the world's most fertile acres lie fallow. Even in crowded Asia, great tracts of potentially arable land, such as the Philippine island of Mindanao and the central highlands of South Viet Nam, remain uncultivated. Meanwhile, the U.S., surfeited with food...
...Federal Government would rent entire farms for long periods, take the land out of crop production and put it to "such uses as reforestation and conservation." As a "start," Rockefeller urged retirement of some 30 million acres in addition to the 20-odd million acres already in the soil bank's conservation reserve. To supplement the land-use program, Rockefeller proposed a rural "job-opportunity program" to help low-income farmers make the switch to nonfarm jobs...
...more flagrantly than the others, few, if any, NATO partners are entitled to exhibit great moral outrage over lagging integration. Items: R.A.F. planes stationed in Europe are at NATO disposal, but R.A.F. defense units in Britain are not; the Scandinavians allow no NATO planes to be stationed on their soil; the atomic weapons that provide NATO with its Sunday punch are jealously kept under U.S. control by act of Congress...
Durieux claimed that the Red Hand had promised the French government not to operate on French soil, but the promise still left Germany (where Durieux is wanted for questioning) open to Red Hand activities. Why. asked Frankfurt's influential Allgemeine, has the Bonn government not addressed a stern word of protest to Paris? "There is a limit to what we should be made to endure from our French ally...