Word: conquest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...surpass India's." Per capita income in both countries is about the same. The problem of absentee land holdings was first tackled in the Eastern wing when the State Acquisition and Tenancy Act of 1950 abolished feudal "Zamindari" which was originally created by the British after their conquest of Bengal. In West Pakistan, a somewhat different system of landlordism has persisted, but plans to reform it are a top priority item with the new Government. Pakistan's population is growing currently at a rate slower than that of the U.S.A. and many other developed countries. Karachi is an over-crowded...
...Conquest (CBS, 5-6 p.m.). Waves, both cranial and oceanic. Half the program consists of film clips from a six-hour job of brain surgery by a team of Johns Hopkins doctors that cured a patient of grand mal epilepsy; the other half describes the toll that the pounding ocean has taken from men, ships and seacoasts...
...panel discussion of "Communist Aims: Conquest or Coexistence" is also featured for later in the day, and conference activities will be concluded by a talk on "Russia and the West: The Face of Tomorrow...
...despair of corn-belt grammarians, Democratic Governor Herschel Cellel Loveless ("the Democrats have did") is also the despair of Iowa Republicans, still smarting at Loveless' conquest of the traditionally Republican state capital in 1956. Pitted against Loveless this year is tall, lean, scholarly William G. Murray, 55, professor of economics at Iowa State College, a tireless and dedicated campaigner who shook hands in all 99 counties during the primary campaign, will visit all 99 again before November. A political novice, Bill Murray has previously dipped in politics no farther than the Ames school board, between campaign stops avidly reads...
...They ought to haul Sceptre up for good," said a top U.S. yachtsman, "and plant geraniums in her cockpit." In the wake of Columbia's embarrassingly thorough, four-straight conquest of Britain's Sceptre by an average margin of 8 min. 43 sec.† off Newport, R.I. last week, sailing buffs asked: Why had the America's Cup races produced such an astounding mismatch...