Word: evens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...detective named Donald ("Flying") Fish. He discovered that some crew members carried jewels, jade, but chiefly easily disposable gold, netted $600 to $700 a trip. Fish spent six weeks investigating, interviewing scores of BOAC staffers, often surprising them at such odd points along their routes as BOAC rest rooms, even (with permission) examining employee bank balances. Last week BOAC announced that 52 employees on its Far East run, all but two of them stewards and stewardesses, had been dismissed, with more firings to come...
...prisoners and killed 200 rebels in difficult jungle warfare. In general, however, Laos' 25,000-man army is poorly trained and must fight piecemeal over large parts of the country. New Communist attacks in four other Laotian provinces last week were obviously designed to spread the defenses even thinner. Some Laotian leaders concede that
...Calcutta, where a hundred thousand homeless refugees sleep on the streets every night, is the most explosive city in India. Murderous riots can be touched off by anything from a trifling rise in streetcar fares to the throat-cutting religious strife that killed thousands in 1946. Calcutta rioters have even perfected their own secret weapon: electric-light bulbs filled with nitric acid...
...women-Jezebel's daughter Athalia, who ruled Judea from 842 B.C. to 836 B.C., and Queen Salome Alexandra, who succeeded to the throne after the death of her husband in 76 B.C. Last week in Israel a third woman took over, but for the first two days not even members of the Cabinet knew it. Finally, Foreign Minister Golda Meir, 61, rose in the Cabinet to inform her colleagues that Premier David Ben-Gurion, 72, had set sail for a much-needed vacation on the Riviera, had kept his departure secret to avoid any fuss. Before he left...
...Janos Borbaly. Not a word about the trial or execution appeared in Hungarian newspapers, but word leaked out to the Manchester Guardian's Victor Zorza, a Polish exile with excellent contacts behind the Iron Curtain. Why such secrecy, asks Zorza, why this great fear of obscure Pal Kosa even when dead and buried in an unmarked grave? "Could it be because to many in Hungary he is a national hero...