Word: dense
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thailand. The open seizure of power by Field Marshal Sarit Thanarat last October has had in Thailand much the same revivifying effect as Ne Win's takeover in Burma. Sarit, who is not in the best of health, seems to have gone through a moral regeneration. He has ordered...
Welcome Home. Richard Gibson, in Manhattan from Paris for the publication of his new novel, A Mirror for Magistrates, points out that other Negro writers (Ralph Ellison, William Demby, Ben Johnson) have chosen Rome for their voluntary exile. He says: "All these people are in Europe because of social and...
Camillien Houde's Montreal (pop. 1,595,000) has changed, and no one has done more to change it than slight, studious-looking Mayor Drapeau. A political unknown, he shot to prominence as prosecutor (1950-53) in a probe of Montreal vice in the '40s, when gambling czars...
¶ Dorothy McCullough Lee, 55, of Portland, Ore., as chairman of the Subversive Activities Control Board, to succeed onetime Ohio Governor Thomas J. Herbert, recently elected to the Ohio Supreme Court. Chosen mayor of Portland in 1948, Republican Lee displayed the kind of independence necessary for her new job: announcing...
Next, his police moved on the 500-odd opium dens in South Viet Nam, and in closing them down, undertook a campaign to rehabilitate some 20,000 addicts. Thousands of confiscated bamboo pipes-kindled by stacks of pornographic literature -were burned in Saigon's central marketplace, and antivice dragon...