Word: easts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bloody race rioting on the offshore island of Penang. The Communists are not strong enough to contemplate open insurrection now, but the Malaysian government fears that they are preparing to make a bid for power when British troops withdraw from Malaysia in 1971 as part of their pull-out east of Suez...
...diplomatic air was filled last week with talk of a possible Middle East settlement between Egypt and Israel-and the talk was kept aloft by Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser. Such hopes, of course, had been raised many times since last summer's Arab-Israeli war, and never came to anything. This time, diplomats in London reported that the Egyptians had informed United Nations Mediator Gunnar Jarring that, if Israel withdrew its forces from the Sinai Peninsula under the terms of last November's U.N. resolution, they would permit a U.N. peace-keeping force to occupy...
Even 250 years ago, it was no great shakes as a gift: 32 books and a few bolts of cloth from a governor of Britain's East India Co. to a struggling American college known as the Connecticut Collegiate School. Yet the colonists so deeply appreciated it that they changed the school's name to honor the donor. And now, having expanded over the years, the present university last week sent 150 alumni, professors and students led by President Kingman Brewster all the way to Wrexham, Wales, to unveil a plaque commemorating the gift made by Elihu Yale...
...then switched to The New Yorker last winter. She has brought out two books of collected criticism, Lost It at the Movies and Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. Though she is now considered one of the country's top movie critics, Miss Kael still feels ill at ease in the East and lacks rapport with fellow intellectuals in Manhattan. Not that she always makes things easy for them. She is even racier in her talk than in her writing, and does not hesitate to correct someone's erroneous ideas about a movie. A chain-smoker, she exhibits that edge of insecurity...
...Hully Gully" came from a) East Oakland, b) Fillmore, c) Watts, d) Harlem, e) Motor City...