Word: hanging
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Most of Asia's old & new nations have yet to grasp the wisdom of Benjamin Franklin's advice: better to hang together than to hang separately. The Philippines' President Elpidio Quirino, long a stout advocate of a Pacific alliance modeled after NATO, has got nowhere, partly because the U.S. wants to delay such an alliance, and partly because Indonesia's leaders, like India's, still dream of a Third Force position between the Communist and the anti-Communist worlds. Recently, two young Filipino veterans, Jaime Ferrer and Eleuterio Adevoso, had an idea: Why not bring...
...Hang On? The odds against Naguib are formidable. Reform in Egypt (or anywhere else in the Middle East) is not simply a matter of passing laws against sin. Corruption is not only the result of greediness among the rich; to millions, it is almost a way of life, prompted by insecurity, hopelessness, and fear of what tomorrow may bring-or take away. To sweep out corruption, as he has promised, Naguib will have to break the stubborn power of the landowning pashas, who are fighting him every inch of the way; he will also have to rebuild Egyptian society from...
Once the hall has been cleaned out and tidied up, the Casino elders plan to fill it with relics and sport curios. On its walls will hang photographs of such court immortals as Richard D. Sears, Robert D. Wrenn, Bill Tilden and Don Budge. The racquets they used and the clothes they wore while making tennis history will be on display. U.S. tennis fans were not too preoccupied with this week's Nationals to ignore Van Alen's announcement; the Hall of Fame already has a sizable kitty...
...Candidate Stevenson) lies a serious tactical problem for the Democrats. The Administration realizes that inflation, the high and heightening cost of everything, will be an issue when the voters go to the polls Nov. 4. The Administration wants to take the issue from around the Democrats' neck and hang it on the Republicans'. Putnam and Brannan did not agree with Arnall on how that should be done...
...straight to Clifford's hut, took one of Clifford's three pistols and killed his sleeping son. Then he surrendered to the police. In Durban police court, he said: "I shot my son because he killed a white man. Do what you will." Mdhlani was sentenced to hang...