Word: burma
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...before him in celebration of the eighth anniversary of the Communist conquest of China. There were the well-drilled children of the Young Pioneers, paratroopers, government workers with flowers in hand. Overhead roared Soviet-made jet bombers and Chinese-made jet fighters. Also on hand were goodwill delegations from Burma and Cambodia, Bulgaria's Premier Anton Yugov, and Hungary's Premier Janos Kadar...
...Watch was originally thrown together as a force of Highland police to prevent cattle stealing, soon became a regiment. Unkilted and wearing khaki battle dress instead, the Watch fought in World War II in Greece, Tobruk, Alamein, Burma, Sicily, Italy, Normandy, Germany. The regiment's most famed legendary wartime exploit: arresting General Eisenhower while he was roaming Gibraltar in civilian clothes (Ike was held, fuming and incommunicado, in the guardhouse for almost four hours...
Quite a voyager, Paul joined the Norwegian Merchant Marine when he finished high school in New Jersey. During the war, he was in one of the last units of the US Cavalry and was shipped to India, China and Burma. After the war he studied painting in Spain under the GI Bill for a couple of years. He doesn't have time for much of his own work any more. "I get more of a kick showing off other people's work. And really, I don't care whether someone buys a painting or not, but I'd rather...
...debate went on, Burma introduced an amendment to make things a little easier for Hungary's masters by having the Assembly "deplore" rather than "condemn" Russia, and was joined by Ceylon, Indonesia and India. The General Assembly rejected the amendment and then, by a bigger margin than last December, voted 60 to 10 to condemn Russia's "continued defiance" of General Assembly resolutions. Yugoslavia was one of the ten Communist nations to side with Russia. Burma in the end voted for the resolution, as did 19 other nations from Asia and Africa. India was among ten that abstained...
...Althea hesitated ("I had to get on my knees to persuade her," says a friend), finally accepted. The troupe included Karol Fageros, a bouncing blonde as famous for her frilly panties as her fancy tennis, Rhodes Scholar Ham Richardson and California's Bob Perry. India, Pakistan, Thailand, Burma -everywhere the tennists made friends for the U.S., and everywhere Althea was the acknowledged champion. Once or twice when reporters raised a question about race problems, she handled herself deftly. "Sure we have a problem in the States," she would say, "as every country has its problems...