Word: flighting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Jungle Search. General Ouane came storming up to the Plaine des Jarres. ordered paratroops dropped to block the four escape routes to the North Viet Nam border, where Communist Ho Chi Minh was eager to welcome his fleeing comrades from Laos. The stumbling flight of the Reds was halted by armed peasants loyal to the government, who fired on them. The pursuing royal troops closed in, and General Ouane demanded surrender by dawn...
Intellectuals' Flight. So far, the Russians have shown no signs of going to such lengths. They no longer so onerously exploit the East Germans, who now have what is probably the best standard of living in the Communist world. Many of East Germany's vaunted economic gains are all show: the bulk of the new housing in East Berlin is on the spectacular but dead Stalinallee. And with a total automobile production last year of 36,000, East Germany still has a long way to go to catch up economically with West Germany, which produced more than...
Nonetheless, the flight to the West continues. Increasingly, the refugees are members of the intellectual elite essential to the functioning of a modern state-teachers (3,400 in 1958), doctors (more than 850), scientists (375). Most refugees flee...
...YpRK-TO-ANCHORAGE nonstop air service once weekly will be started by Northwest Airlines on June 1. New great-circle flight on DC-7Cs will continue to Tokyo, cut seven hours' flying time from New York-Tokyo...
...Space - Man's Last Frontier (NBC, 5-6 p.m.). The peacetime uses of space-flight research. An inspection tour of a manned missile, conducted by the producers of Omnibus at the new Avco Research Cen ter in Wilmington, Mass...