Word: eastern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...varsity fencing team finished eighth out of eleven schools in the Eastern Intercollegiate Fencing Championship last Friday and Saturday with an overall record of 32 wins and 58 losses. The contest was held at the Hotel Concourse Plaza in New York...
Officially, Khrushchev was in Leipzig to attend the spring opening of the city's 800-year-old fair. The fair these days is a key meeting ground between Eastern Communists and Western businessmen. Rolling into a Town Hall luncheon with his familiar spraddle-footed gait, Khrushchev settled down at a table with three British M.P.s. "I didn't come here to talk politics," he began with a grin. "I represent business circles of the Soviet Union." That raised a laugh that brought reporters running. Thereupon, Laborite M.P. Ian Mikardo asked what might come of the proposed Foreign Ministers...
...audience, mostly representatives of Soviet, East German and Eastern European governments, cheered. Said Nikita: "We shall sign the peace treaty. We shall defend peace with all our force. We shall not yield. I have said it all before. But repetition is the mother of wisdom...
...taken on the Reds. According to the reports, up to 8,000 of the leather-booted Khambas, swinging ancient swords on horseback, taking potshots with captured Red rifles and pushing boulders down the mountain sides onto Chinese truck convoys have gained control of a 200-square-mile area in eastern Tibet-most of the basin of the Brahmaputra River south of the Tibetan capital of Lhasa. So far, they appear to be fighting more for themselves than in the name of the 23-year-old Dalai Lama, who with Red consent has managed to stay on his lacquered throne...
Belle, 27, is Pittsburgh's onetime "boy wonder" of finance, wanted for bilking three Eastern banks out of $825,000. Cage, 41, is under sentence to ten years in prison for embezzling $100,000 from the Texas insurance company he once headed. Both fled south just ahead of justice and took refuge in the fact that Brazil has no extradition treaty with the U.S. and refuses to sign one as long as the U.S. permits capital punishment-which is long enough for Cage and Belle...