Word: backed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After 21 hours, a search plane sighted them, dropped a note to a boat, which picked them up. Mother Lillian Rich was given up for dead. But next day a helicopter spotted her, cut and bone weary, back near the confluence, picked her up by landing in a nearby clearing. Search parties later retrieved the hull of the Rich boat, its motor, top and windshield gone. Gone, too, was Frank Rich. His son, Del, could not forgive himself. "It was my fault, my fault," he mumbled over and over, staring out at the river...
...without reason -for too long concealing the fact that there swarmed about the court people whose heads were too much in the clouds." The Dutch press could hardly be accused of concealing the facts last week. Once again, Queen Juliana's weakness for the preternatural had landed her back in the headlines: she had invited to the palace a crackpot from California who numbered among his friends men from Mars, Venus and other solar-system suburbs. Both court and Cabinet pleaded, but the Queen would not be budged. "A hostess," said she in refusing to cancel the audience, "cannot...
...Arab refugees in 58 camps around Israel's borders. Richer Arabs say it is up to the West to help their poor Arab brethren, because it was the West that invited Israel in to become a nation. The Israelis, for their part, are willing to take back only a selected few of the refugees. The U.S., which pays 70% of UNRWA's $33 million annual budget, wants the U.N., before UNRWA's mandate runs out in 1960, to find some better solution to one of the world's most intractable and heart-rending problems...
Three years ago, though out of power, Britain's Laborites gained 204 seats in borough elections. Last week, having dropped 216 in the last local election, they were just about back where they started from. The conspicuous failure of Labor's leaders to offer any spirited competition or nourishing program suggests that had Prime Minister Harold Macmillan called a snap general election in May. as some of his Tory advisers urged him to, he would have been safely in for another five years. Macmillan's mandate runs until May 1960. Though Laborites and Conservatives are about evenly...
...Burma seems to doubt that General Ne Win's military regime will, in due course, call general elections and hand the country back to civilian rule. But due course is not soon enough for U Nu, the moonfaced ex-Premier who called the soldiers in when his own political dominance began to crumble...