Word: camps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...address the next day to the U.N. General Assembly; a luncheon in Hollywood, complete with stars and starlets; sightseeing in San Francisco; a visit to an Iowa corn farm near Des Moines and to the University of Pittsburgh; and two days of conferences with President Eisenhower, possibly at secluded Camp David...
...first one. A thousand miles to the west, in the Ladakh district of Kashmir, Chinese Communists have repeatedly ambushed and captured isolated Indian patrols, said Nehru. As recently as July an Indian detachment (an officer and five men) was taken prisoner by Chinese troops that had established a camp "well within Indian territory...
This week, with the coming of September, the hotels and pensions, camp grounds and cellars are emptying as tourists make their exhausted way north to factory and office. French railroads put on extra trains; airlines had to refuse tearful pleas. Route Nationale No. 7, which loops its way up the Rhone Valley to Paris, was bumper to bumper with homeward-bound cars. Many tourists swore they would never return, but might well change their minds by next summer, especially if they listen to the men of vision on the Riviera who are talking excitedly of building artificial islands...
...Fort Benning, Ga. won 14 out of 24 matches, set a national record of 1.107 points out of a possible 1,200 with the M-1 service rifle at distances of 600, 500, 300 and 200 yds., routed Marine, Navy and civilian teams to capture the Infantry Trophy at Camp Perry, Ohio...
Typewriter Therapy. In the five years since Dienbienphu's fall, high-strung Tom Dooley gained international prominence. He was so appalled by the wretchedness of the 610,000 refugees who passed through his camp that a physician friend advised him to act out his hostilities on a typewriter. The result was Deliver Us from Evil, a 1955 bestseller...