Word: aug
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...party activists in the communes. Dutifully heeding Peking's clamorous cries for concentration on grain and on backyard steel production (since largely abandoned), commune bosses neglected vegetables, cloth and fiber crops. The result was a severe crimp in Red China's once booming export drive (TIME, Aug. 3), and a vegetable shortage so severe that last month China's cities were informed that henceforth they would have to grow all their own food except grain (TIME, July...
Last week Lebanon's President Fuad Chehab, who does his best to ignore the feuds, headed for his summer home in the mountains, there to greet a group of visiting Lebanese-Americans (TIME, Aug. 3). Among his invited guests: bulky Nairn Moghabghab, 48, one of the heroes of Lebanon's long independence struggle against the French. It was Guerrilla Moghabghab who in 1944 shot a French soldier who was trying to replace the Lebanese flag with the Tricolor atop Beirut's parliament building. Moghabghab became a Deputy and later Minister of Works...
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