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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sluice gates are closed. In late 1953 South Africa passed a law barring all future immigration of Asians into white-supremist South Africa. On the night before the law went into effect last week, the airports were jammed with last-minute arrivals. A party of 150 Asians was stranded en route in Nairobi, unable to charter a plane to make the deadline...
...Navy does not expect all its balloons to land in the U.S. Many will go down in the Atlantic from Labrador to Cuba. They will range en route as far north as Alaska and as far south as Hawaii. Wherever they wander, they will report winds, temperature and air pressure in regions almost unknown to meteorologists, and will give better understanding of the high-speed winds that dominate the airways where jet liners will soon be flying...
World War II: Discharged from air force; after fall of France, fled to Spain, en route to North Africa to join Free French, was imprisoned for six months. Ill in Morocco, he was nursed by black-haired Yvette Céva, Algiers-born daughter of a French colon, married her in 1943 (they now have four children). They moved to England, where Pierre trained with the R.A.F...
...seats of the National Assembly, the Communists reversed their tactic. With soft words, Communist Leader Ho Chi Minh suggested a diplomatic exchange with Norodom. Nothing doing, replied Norodom. "Your radio is insulting us and encouraging subversion on our soil." And when Red China's Chou En-Lai sent a formal invitation to visit Peking, Norodom shrugged: "I have enough worry on my hands...
...help complete it before flying on to Korea for his fifth consecutive Christmas with the troops. Dr. Blake, traveling in the personal plane of Lieut. General Glenn O. Barcus of the Northeast Air Command, with the general himself at the controls, stopped at Labrador and Greenland en route to Thule (700 miles from the North Pole) to deliver Christmas Day sermons...