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...Clear the Lobbies." Added Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden: "What we need now is a working base and not a beleaguered garrison . . . We have to adapt our minds more and more to the conception that countries, wherever they are, do not like to have foreign troops on their soil . . . More and more we shall have to base ourselves upon our own strategic reserve here and our ability to fly it to whatever quarter it is needed...
...great moment for Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser, the 36-year-old soldier-revolutionary who is Premier of Egypt. He had achieved what Egyptians had been trying to do for over 70 years: get Britain's troops off their country's soil. London had at last agreed to evacuate its mighty Suez Canal base. "Now I am worthy of my uniform," exulted Nasser's close friend, General Abdel Hakim Amer, commander of Egypt's army...
...bacteria as an aid to exploration, e.g., certain important layers of rock can be identified by the fossil microorganisms imbedded in the strata. Some of these are remains of bacteria that lived freakishly on iron or sulphur compounds; others, still living, get along on petroleum itself. Most common soils contain bacteria that can "eat" hydrocarbons; if oil is spilled on the soil, they multiply enthusiastically, and soon the oil disappears...
...teaching history solely as a narrative series of events, Miss Collier likes to concentrate on such current problems as conservation. Once she set her class to reclaiming a 32-acre plot of land just outside of town, got botany students to study its plants, chemists to examine its soil, geology and art students to make up maps, agricultural students to irrigate and plant, and commercial law students to draw up a five-year lease with the land's owners. Last year her class decided that the community needed a new branch public library, engaged in a hot campaign...
...water, probably by changes of sea level because of ice ages, to become full-fledged islands. Then furious tropical rain went to work on the porous coral, dissolving it. The center of the island eroded faster than the rim, particularly if it had picked up a layer of soil. Reason: the soil contributed acids that attacked the limestone...