Word: eastern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kirklin has an Eastern tour during spring vacation, a proposed record under the baton of Arthur Fiedler, and a possible European tour in his plans for the coming year...
...academic interests of this year's Yardling range from Oceanography to Far Eastern Languages, but the chances are that he'll concentrate in the Natural Sciences...
With the U.S. assuming major responsibility for defending the Eastern Mediterranean and the Middie East, the British were adapting their strategic posture to their reduced military requirements and their straitened economic circumstances. By next April the headquarters of Middle Eastern defense will be moved from Cyprus 1,700 miles south to Aden, near the mouth of the Red Sea. But, to escape Aden's 120° heat, several thousand troops of a mobile "strategic reserve" will be quartered in cool Kenya...
...m.p.h. Lockheed Electra, rolled off production lines a month ahead of schedule in race to beat Boeing's 600-m.p.h. pure jet 707 (TIME, Nov. 11) onto commercial air lanes. Lockheed has 141 firm orders for the $2,000,000 plane, is scheduled to make first delivery to Eastern Air Lines in August...
...nearly 500 years, the persecuted Jews of Eastern Europe led a narrow, closed-in existence. The only escape lay inward-in wild frenzies of Hasidic worship or in equally wild flights of the imagination. In this kind of life, the storytellers became the soul's best physicians; drawing on their tradition, later writers such as Russia's Sholom Aleichem created a whole literature in which pain and happiness, the worldly and the supernatural come together under a canopy of wry humor. Two books, written by exiles from Eastern Europe, have much of Aleichem's rewarding piety...