Word: freshness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time plays tricks in primitive Laos, where communications are so poor that reports from the provinces are often as deceptive as stars that are burned out and dead by the time their light finally reaches the earth. Fact was that 29 hours before Phoumi spoke an estimated 4,000 fresh Communist troops, including North Vietnamese regulars, had come sweeping out of Viet Nam across the Nam Ma river into Samneua province. With their attack the situation in Laos changed from merely ugly to critical...
...Laos, taking over from his 74-year-old father, King Sisavong Vong, who abdicated because he felt the country needed a younger and more energetic chief of state. At the risk of exposing the southern provinces of Laos to attacks from Communist guerrillas operating out of northern Thailand, a fresh battalion of loyal troops was airlifted to threatened Samneua. And late in the week Laotian Foreign Minister Khampan Panya took a step that his government had desperately hoped to avoid, directed an urgent appeal to the U.N. Cabled Khampan: "In face of this fagrant aggression, for which [North] Viet...
...American occupation to win acceptance, even now remain more popular abroad than at home. Putting a sampling of Japan's best on display, Manhattan's small Weyhe Gallery in two months sold 75 prints, 25 of them to museums and schools, last week was awaiting a fresh supply from Japan to restock its walls...
...Labor Day approached, the U.S. was in a spending mood. The freest with their funds were those who pinched pennies most tightly only a few months ago: U.S. industries. Last week Washington economists reported a fresh surge in expenditures for new plant and equipment. Capital investment has climbed from an annual rate of $30.6 billion in the first quarter to $32.3 billion in the second to a brisk $33.4 billion, may well hit $35 billion in the fourth quarter-if a prolonged steel strike does not sabotage the economists' projections...
...Only another shoot-'em-up, but a welcome sign of a change in the weather. When Steve McQueen, as Bounty Hunter Josh Randal, takes up with "the Montana Kid," he will be the first of the fast-draw men to desert reruns and start fresh shows for the new fall season...