Word: bushing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Alaska, with returns still coming in by bush plane from isolated districts, Stevenson led Kefauver by 5,900 to 3,700 and cinched Alaska's six convention votes. Collecting more votes than either Democrat was Republican Eisenhower, even though his Administration was supposedly in bad odor because Ike had opposed immediate Alaskan statehood. The straw: In Alaska, at least, the Administration's territorial and conservation policies are not nearly as unpopular as the Democrats have cracked them...
...wiry young Gubabwingu tribesman found lying in the bush near the Yirrkala Methodist Mission, 400 miles east of Darwin in North Australia's desolate Arnhem Land, was paralyzed in the arms and legs and could scarcely breathe. Suspecting polio, the missionaries radioed for an air ambulance, and soon a 20th century thunderbird flew in to take Lya Wulumu (nicknamed Charlie), 19, from his Stone Age hunting grounds to Darwin Hospital. There four white doctors went to work...
Person to Person (Fri. 10:30 p.m., CBS). Ed Murrow interviews Noel Coward and Dr. Vannevar Bush...
...British protectorates of Bechuanaland, Basutoland and Swaziland, a fate that the natives of those protectorates strongly resist. To clear the black areas, thousands of white farmers would have to be moved from their farms and settled in white areas. If the black men still preferred Johannesburg to the bush, they could be forced into the national homes only with troops-an action that might well start off rebellion. A major problem is cost. The commission figured the price would be $300 million in the first ten years. Even this sum would not build many roads, railways, utilities, steel mills...
...bush village of Bokouélé, the ancient Kani Eyobélé was dying, so he called his sons around him; the instructions he gave them were minute and terrifying. As soon as he died a calabash of palm wine was to be broken in the yard of his hut. Then in Eyobélé's open grave a white cockerel was to be beheaded and released. If the headless, fluttering bird flew out of the grave it was well: the dead man was on his way to the upper regions. But if the bird stayed...