Word: flowerings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...schools, hospitals and other public buildings, $75 million for roads and bridges. Its new $30 million refinery provides Iraq with gasoline at 15? a gallon (though heavy taxes lift it up to 29? a gallon). Ancient, reeking Baghdad (pop. 550,000), which bears almost no resemblance to the flower-decked Arabian Nights pleasure dome that the Caliph Harun al-Rashid (786-809) shared so opulently with 2,000,000 subjects, is getting low-cost housing, a sewage system, some badly needed modern streets, and the promise of room to expand now that the Tigris can be curbed...
...Disneyland (Wed. 7:30 p.m., ABC). When Knighthood Was in Flower, with Richard Todd, Glynis Johns...
...revolutions this time of year," President Alfredo Stroessner contentedly remarked in the flower of Paraguay's summer; moreover, it is bad form in Latin America to plot just before Christmas. But last week, disregarding both the heat and all considerations of good taste, Strongman Stroessner's enemies tried to throw...
...Paris, was usually a silent onlooker. He was content to drink in the new, exciting talk of pure, shadowless colors like a peasant swigging new May wine, then rush off to the Montmartre rooms that he shared with his brother to try out the new theories in dazzling flower paintings...
Artifacts of Achievement. For six triphammer days, while Premier Nikolai Bulganin traveled in genial, flower-showered near-silence at his side, the chief of Russian Bolshevism carried the brick-loaded Red hod through Burma. He heaved some bricks at the West, crashed others through the plate-glass facts of history. Some he carefully mortared into the structure of Communism's new policy in Asia. All in all, he must have accounted it a good week's work. The Burmans had not displayed the tumultuous enthusiasm of the Indians, but when the pair left Rangoon to return to India...