Word: bamboos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nelson Rockefeller, RCA's David Sarnoff and Marcel Palmaro, head of Lehman Bros.' foreign department, were soon being buttonholed by Burmese industrialists, Taiwan manufacturers, Brazilian bankers. Projects from underdeveloped countries eager for foreign capital were produced by the hatful. India is ready to open its great bamboo forest in the Mysore province for paper and pulp production if it can get $8,500,000 in foreign exchange in return for half ownership. India's Orissa province needs $1,500,000 in foreign capital to build a $3,700,000 brick and ceramic factory, which after two years...
Over the intricate rhythms of drums hovered the fluid notes of a single bamboo flute and the wailng chant of a solo male voice. Against a plain black backdrop swirled brilliantly costumed dancers, unfolding exotic tales of lust and vengeance, ecstasy and evil. The occasion: the Broadway opening, prior to a U.S. tour, of the Indian dance group headed by Shanta Rao (rhymes with...
...refrain from sexual intercourse while a batch is being run, and women may be kept at a distance. In some tribes the work must be finished before the sun reaches the zenith (or interrupted then). Many refuse to put new curare into old bottles, insist on new containers (gourds, bamboo sections or earthenware jars...
...population may be out of action all at once. Reason: It is now clear that despite the best efforts of medical men and drug manufacturers, only a small part of the U.S. population can be protected in time against the new flu virus that filtered through the Bamboo Curtain last April. For the latest, disquieting report on the invader and on the defense measures being planned, see MEDICINE, Asian Flu: the Outlook...
...green waters of the 500-year-old, moss-and lichen-encrusted Imperial Moat, big-winged black butterflies flutter languidly. Within the Imperial Palace grounds (visited by 700,000 Japanese yearly) swarms of graceful scarlet dragonflies dip and glitter in the sunshine. In tiny rock gardens behind the bamboo walls of private homes, artificial fountains gurgle, and tiny bells tinkle to the slightest breeze. Traffic cops, sweating in their summer khakis, pause to admire carefully arranged clusters of chrysanthemums set in their dusty control stations, sip glasses of hot green tea to keep cool. And even the most suicidal of taxi...