Word: continente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Giant Unleashed. But the delegates from 68 nations, comprising a Who's Who of international banking and finance, had only to stray a few steps beyond this facade to see nagging reminders of that other India-the India of bullock-drawn carts, and hovels and beggars, the teeming, tumultuous...
Big news was brewing on Ottawa's Parliament Hill. Prime Minister John Diefenbaker summoned newsmen for a late afternoon press conference, kept them fidgeting until all the nation's stock markets were closed for the day. Then, under the glare of TV lights, Diefenbaker announced a 180°...
The group then dispersed for a short while, most departing for whirlwind trips through the continent. The members met again at Wimbledon on July 4th, where they were given free tickets to the last two days of the tournament. They then attended the Wimbledon Ball, as guests of the All...
In French Guinea what Sekou Touré says goes. His political control is so tight and his followers so quick to violence and intimidation that even French observers gloomily expect Guinea to vote no by more than 90%. Yet his outburst was as unexpected as it was final. Some blamed...
The beating of wings sounded like thunder in the crisping air. Across 700 miles of flat and rolling water-flecked land from Alberta through Saskatchewan and on east to Manitoba, Canada's great duck factory was emptying for the winter. Some 200 million ducks, incubated in millions of prairie...