Word: alonge
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...comes, China's numbers are not likely to be an overwhelming advantage, for any fighting along the 2,500-mile mountainous border would undoubtedly be limited to units smaller than battalions. Neither the Indians nor Chinese could push any real strength up into or through the Himalayas on the existing roads over the high passes, which are scarcely adequate for yak caravans and cannot handle trucks, much less tanks...
...murderer, serving a life term at hard labor, who first had the idea for the Christmas party three months ago, and it took him only a day or two to persuade his European and African prison mates to go along. Then he convinced the warden. Using an empty cell as an office, the prisoners wrote to stores and charities in town explaining that they wanted to invite as many of Salisbury's European orphans and needy children as possible: ''We would like to be their parents for one day." Soon, the gifts began to arrive...
Corporately, CBC is a government-owned network with nine stations of its own plus 44 privately owned affiliates strung along the world's longest (4,200 miles) microwave hookup. Canada justifies government ownership by the need for serving up Canadian culture to an audience uneconomically scattered across a vast land. But the government recognizes the merits of competition, and a new Board of Broadcast Governors (TIME, Nov. 16) will soon begin licensing private-enterprise second stations in all major cities. CBC President Alphonse Ouimet, 51, whose $17,000-a-year salary is less than one-sixth as much...
...hotels would be $4,000 per traveler, and a letter of application would be considered a contract for that amount. After this announcement, applications dwindled magically to 83 men and one woman, Elaine Shepard of Prentice-Hall (school books, trade publications), as nonworking applicants who were just going along for the ride dropped out and big agencies and publications cut their lists...
...piece), what to pack (three or four bars of soap, enough clean underwear to last until New Delhi, black tie for state occasions en route). Hagerty, who took a dry-run tour of the route in November, even thoughtfully published information on the availability of American cigarettes along the way ($5 a carton in Karachi, none to be had in New Delhi) and-a matter of vital importance to deadline-conscious newsmen-the time differential between New York and each stop...