Word: flags
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tour through the villages not long ago, Nehru was supoosed to unfurl the national tricolor at a public meeting. Something went wrong with the pulley, and the flag would not unfurl. The Prime Minister tugged hard, waxing more & more furious. He summoned the organizer of the meeting, a sheepish-looking yokel. "Can't this village even fly the nation's flag efficiently?" Nehru railed. "I will wait here until I am able to unfurl the flag on that mast." He did, and missed lunch in the process. But at last the pulley was repaired and the flag unfurled...
...Peiping, Mao ordered ten days of celebration. The capital turned out for a big military parade, complete with 14 planes of the new Chinese Red Air Force. In Shanghai, schoolgirls marched, gongs and cymbals sounded, giant Red stars appeared everywhere under the new gold-starred flag of the "People's" Republic...
...Union of Viet Nam, composed of the old colonial provinces of Cochin-China, Annam and Tonkin, and run by an autonomous federal government. To continue as French protectorates with semi-autonomous status are the remaining two provinces: Laos, the land with the three-headed elephant in its flag (TIME, Aug. 1) and Cambodia, ruled by young (26) King Norodom Sihanouk...
...minute hand neared midnight on the last day of Congress' session, Peronista deputies sang the Argentine national hymn and then boisterously burst into Peronista Boys. Said one Radical deputy as he surveyed the week's work: "I move that the Argentine flag be flown at half-mast...
...stone covered a small vault. Within were a skull and other calcified bones, 37 beads, two rings, three cut amethysts, and a large uncut diamond. Greying, spectacled Doctor Guzman grabbed the Mexican flag from a nearby chair and ran to the door of the church. With tears in her eyes she lifted the banner-high and announced proudly: "The remains of the last Emperor of the Aztecs have been found...