Word: ended
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...climax to a year that had seen 695 terrorists killed, captured or cajoled into surrender, leaving only an estimated 600 guerrillas in the jungles after ten years of guerrilla war. In flushing the terrorists out, the government had resorted to an extraordinary tactic. "If money can buy the end of the emergency," said Prime Minister Tengku (Prince) Abdul Rahman last week, "we will buy it. We cannot stick to principles; if we did, Hor Lung should really be hanged." Instead of hangings, the terrorists have the offer of substantial rewards for surrendering, and for going back into the jungle...
...week's end troops still ringed the inviolable campuses. Inside, students danced round blazing buses as white-clad medical students set up first-aid stations, home-economics coeds perspired prettily over soup kettles, and chemistry aspirants continued to make Molotov cocktails. The bus drivers? They got no raises, and precious little work...
With casual plausibility, a Russian newsman at the U.N. put an effective end to five, years of speculation. What-a curious West had wondered-happened to Vasily Dzhugashvili Stalin, fighter pilot, once (in his mid-20s the youngest general in Russia's armed forces, younger son of Joseph Stalin? He was last seen publicly at his father's funeral in 1953, and a report later that year said he was in a "correction camp" in the Russian Arctic. Other hearsays turned up as time passed: Vasily Stalin was dead in a central Asiatic slave labor camp, alive...
Lean & Powerful. At week's end, with a month left to play, Banks was hitting a lively .313 and leading the majors with 42 home runs and the league with no runs batted in.* Far behind were such famed sluggers as the Giants' Willie Mays (23 homers) and the Yankees' Mickey Mantle (83 runs batted in). Banks seemed a sure bet to become the eighth player-and the first shortstop-ever to hit more than 50 homers in a single season. Moreover, Cub fans with a faith in miracles hopefully noted that Banks was just three games...
Banks never learned to use his strength until the end of the 1954 season, his first full year in the majors, when he put aside his 35-oz. bat for one weighing 31 oz. Banks found that he could watch the pitch's path until the last split second, then pick it off with a quick bat stroke...