Word: eurasian
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...frontier along the 6,000-mile stretch of Indian Ocean where the U.S. now has no bases. They will be at home along the long Arctic coastline of Eurasia. By 1965, the Navy plans a fleet of 45 FBM submarines-30 on station at a time around the Eurasian land mass. And by 1965 Red Raborn plans to extend Polaris' range to 2,500 miles per missile...
...Leopard to sip their pastis, discuss business conditions, and wait for the tribesmen on their way down from the hills with their annual offering of confiture (jam), the local nickname for opium. Most of the boys have a Mediterranean origin: Couscous, a wiry North African; Carlo the Corsican; a Eurasian called Moitie Gnakouey; and a clutch of characters of vaguely French antecedents-Petit Pere, La Seche Noire (the Black Cigarette), Le Gorille Gris (the Grey Gorilla...
Landing in Miami after a voodoo-drummed idyl in Haiti with Omaha Dentist Miles Graham (real name: Marlon Brando), sultry Eurasian student Timy Van Nga (real identity: Actress France Nuyen) lost her temper at the airport when lensmen tried to snap the ill-disguised lovebirds (TIME, Sept. 28). After conking a photographer with her purse and punching his face, France abandoned the precarious world of Timy Van Nga to return to Broadway and her title role in The World of Suzie Wong...
...tourist got off a plane in Port-au-Prince, told immigration officials he was Miles Gaham, 35, a dentist from Omaha. The Haitians looked right past his white cap, tight woolen shirt, dark glasses and absurd phony mustache, said: "Welcome, Marlon Brando." The actor had brought along a pretty Eurasian girl, who said her name was Timy Van Nga; occupation: student. In a U-drive-it Volkswagen, the two demonstrated the close relationship between love and Haiti, thrill-riding the island's mountain curves, dancing to voodoo drums at the nightclub Bacoulou. By week's end, when...
...border of China, Soviet Central Asia is a region as big as India, half as big as the U.S. Mountain ranges, deserts as bone-dry as the Sahara, and interminable wastes of grassy steppes make it one of the earth's most inhospitable areas. But from this Eurasian heartland came Aryans to populate the West, and across its pink sands marched generations of world conquerors. In 329 B.C. Alexander the Great sacked Samarkand ("Place of Sugars"), a city already centuries old. Rebuilt, Samarkand became one of the central depots on the great Silk Road from Byzantium to China...