Word: deserts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seventh Chinese atomic test since Peking joined the nuclear club three years ago, the flash of a fireball last week lit up the desert around Lop Nor in northwestern China. It was the first test since last spring, when a Maoist mushroom cloud proved to the world that the Chinese had succeeded in the summa of atomic arts-building a hydrogen bomb. Bang No. 7 was far, far smaller, probably in the Hiroshima-bomb range of 20 kilotons. But it was no less menacing for being a minibang. Unless it was a partial dud-as Peking's unaccustomed silence...
...Desert near Beersheba. A warning by the Arab guerrilla organization El Fatah that Christmas tourists would not be safe in the Holy Land led the Israeli government to station 950 security police in Jerusalem and Bethlehem and to set up roadblocks in the area...
Monty Memoir," which had Field Marshal Montgomery recalling those bloody days in the North African desert 25 years ago. Among other specials in debut last week: CBS's "Flanders and Swann," a wryly amusing hour, but too familiar to anyone who had seen the British song-and-patter team on Broadway; and CBS's dramatization of Gogol's Diary of a Madman, which, while a triumph for French Actor Roger Cog-gio, who learned the English dialogue phonetically, was too lacking in action to satisfy the visual demands...
ALAMEIN: A MONTY MEMOIR (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). British Field Marshal Montgomery recalls, with the help of actual combat footage, how his Eighth Army defeated Rommel's Afrika Korps in the North African desert 25 years...
...UNVANQUISHED (NBC, 12:30-1 p.m.). The drama of Masada in the year A.D. 73, when the Jewish defenders of the desert fortress committed suicide be fore their Roman conquerors, is re-created in observance of Hanukkah, the Festival of Lights...