Word: 1940s
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Burmese President Ne Win's socialist government controls the mining and export of jade; in fact, much of the trade is operated by chieftains of eastern Burma's fiercely independent Shan state, Chinese warlords left over from Kuomintang forces that fled south from China in the late 1940s and various tribesmen in southern Burma who have never acknowledged the rule of Rangoon. All these groups long depended for most of their cash income not on jade but on the rake-off from the lucrative opium trade that originates in the mountain poppy fields of the Golden Triangle...
...works is Furniture in 24 Hours, Volume II. One of the two dozen entries will be a chair that requires no glues or screws and can be finished for less than $10, including back and bottom cushions. Another student-designed project is an updated version of the 1940s gossip bench, also glueless and screwless, that can be made for $6. Still, to Spiros Zakas, making furniture is not so much a matter of price as of pride-of "putting yourself in your home." If he keeps at it. Author-Editor Zakas may even put Designer Zakas out of business...
...Life in Hell's Kitchen has been heaven," rhapsodizes Sylvester ("Sly") Stallone. The Italian Stallion is back on location in the tenements-this time not on the Rocky roads of Philadelphia, but on Manhattan's West Side. In Paradise Alley, Stallone plays Cosmo, a 1940s street hustler who hangs out with a beautiful hooker (Joyce Ingalls). The dialogue, raw and raunchy, is written by-who else? But not content with being both author and star, Sly is also making his directing debut. His early impressions: "I'm learning how the other half lives through others from...
...1940s, medical labs in California imported thousands of African clawed frogs to be used in pregnancy tests for women. Rabbits, however, proved quite significantly quicker and better, so the redundant frogs were released, and jumped along into mud dy coastal waterways and flood control basins from Santa Barbara to San Diego. It was an act of kindness that should have been avoided. Feeding insatiably on fish eggs, minnows, insects and tadpoles of other frog species, the aggressive African guests have upset the ecological balance in a five-county area...
...Broederbond provided financial aid to thousands of poor Afrikaners. It also founded the Federation of Afrikaans Cultural Organizations (F.A.K.), which evolved into an umbrella organization that now coordinates hundreds of national cultural societies. Concentrating on education, the Broederbond opposed the language policy of Prime Minister Jan Smuts in the 1940s, under which Afrikaner children were taught half their subjects in English and the remainder in their native tongue. Since 1948 the Broederbond has completely controlled the educational policy of South Africa; Afrikaner schools perpetuate the philosophy of Christian nationalism and exclusive Afrikanerism...