Word: asia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...speech, drawing extemporaneously on his freshly learned stock of Russian proverbs ("Better to see once than hear a hundred times"). As the party set out for the U.S. embassy, Nixon stopped long enough to shake hands with bystanding Russians in the manner that had served him well through Britain, Asia, Latin America and Africa. But the Russians had not the slightest idea...
...games and judo, has signed the taped Perry Como show for a year. With such attractions, he figures that demand will soon drive the price of color receivers down far enough to fit the budget of the average televiewer, is planning to set up color studios all over Southeast Asia. Says Shoriki : "I want Japan to be the first country in the world to have full-scale color TV in operation. I want Japan to beat...
...Good. The result is that the Red Chinese trade offensive has lost its wind both in the West and in Southeast Asia. In the first five months of 1959, the Red Chinese funneled $60 million worth of goods through Hong Kong to Southeast Asia, v. $80 million last year, and exports through Singapore fell 73%. The Canton fair held this spring rang up $79 million worth of trade; last year the total was $180 million...
...start of his sweep through Asia in 333 B.C., Alexander took Gordium and whether in a fit of impatience or as a calculated gesture sliced apart with his sword the legendary "Gordian knot," pride of the Phrygian priesthood, which no man before his time had ever been able to untie...
...point because Venus and Regulus would be close to the eastern horizon with the sun above them. With help from the U.S. Air Force and Boeing Airplane Co., Harvard sent trained observers with elaborate light measuring devices to France, Spain, Italy and Lebanon; other astronomers in South Africa and Asia set up watch...