Word: bases
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heart of the Congo, black cadets are training at the colony's first military academy. Nowhere in Africa is there such a solid, well-paid class of native technicians. Congolese pilot river and lake steamers, run locomotives, do 90% of the repair work at the big military base at Kamina. But Africans are still segregated in native quarters, must be in their own part of town by curfew-9-10 o'clock...
...newsreel vaults and a network of private collectors, mostly eccentrics whom one NBC searcher describes as "a basketful of live eels who frequently don't own the film legally." Archives are widely scattered, often poorly indexed, studded with tantalizing gaps left by oversight, fire and disintegration. Nitrate-base film, widely used until 1948, has a lifetime of only 25 years. "It is not unusual," says an expert, "to open a can of film and find nothing but dust." Almost as frustrating is the sheer volume; the vaults of the U.S. armed forces alone hold 166 million feet visible...
...full briefings on the next Vanguard test, but insist that they file their stories on a "hold-for-release" basis for use after the shoot. Straight from the launching pads came the best-aimed proposal of all. Said Lieut. Colonel Sid Spear, public relations officer at Patrick Air Force Base...
...weapons are expected to begin moving to NATO nations within a year or 18 months. Base sites will be negotiated. This leaves such reluctant nations as Norway and Denmark free to refuse the missiles...
Turtle Afloat. Koreans proudly point back to the days when the country was the base from which Buddhism was launched in Japan, and a prime influence on Japan's ceramic art. Not only did Koreans print with movable type 50 years before Gutenberg, and launch an ironclad ship (in the form of a turtle) that devastated the Japanese fleet in 1592, but over the centuries they have made a rich contribution to the art of the Orient...