Word: bamboos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hanoi, the Viet Minh's red and yellow-starred flags hung from stores and warehouses, from shacks and villas, from cycle-taxis that darted along uncrowded boulevards. Portraits of Malenkov, Mao and Ho stared out from the stalls of the peddlers. At main intersections there were bamboo arches of triumph, decked with papier-mâché peace doves and slogans that proclaimed "INDEPENDENCE" or "PEACE" or "PRESIDENT HO FOR TEN THOUSAND YEARS." No exception, no dissent was permitted in Hanoi's show of joy; nobody forgot to display his enthusiasm, or was too lazy to bother...
...size of South Carolina. Later, from a low-flying helicopter, Nehru saw the levees disintegrate and the river roll over most of the tea city of Dibrugarh (pop. 23,000), in the hills of Assam. Back on land, he shook off his nervous aides and went striding across rickety bamboo bridges to watch sawmills, temples, schools and homes collapse and vanish into the muddy torrent. Once a great mass of earth crashed down only 20 feet from him, but Nehru was unhurt...
...newsmen who vanished behind the Chinese Communist bamboo curtain more than a year ago were reported released this week. I.N.S. Correspondent Donald Dixon, 26, and National Broadcasting Co. Correspondent Richard Applegate, 38, were captured by a Red gunboat while vacationing aboard their sailboat Kert in waters west of Hong Kong. Along with their U.S.-born captain, Dixon and Applegate were taken prisoner, accused of "intruding into China's waters." Repeated U.S. attempts to have them released failed. This week the Communist Peking radio announced that they and their skipper had been "deported" from Red China and were on their...
...mystique that Japan's U.S. -dictated Constitution sought to destroy had been replaced by a new mystique; Hirohito's 18-day tour was dramatic proof of the change. Too Human. Some Japanese conservatives today would like to restore the old imperial symbolism and put Hirohito behind a bamboo screen like his great-grandfather Komei, who used to sit hidden, with only his bony knees and frail legs showing when he conferred with members of the state council. But the fact is that Hirohito himself, a constitutional mon arch without real power, has become far too human...
...imports this coal from the U.S. and elsewhere, at $11 to $17 a ton. She has similar trouble with salt, a staple of her chemical industry, on which the shipping costs alone are $12 a ton. Some of her prewar export markets are closed to her by the Bamboo Curtain, others by old hatreds, others by stiff free-world competition. Japanese silk, which used to be her biggest dollar earner, has been knocked out by modern synthetic fibers...