Word: helpe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Back came Rome Bureau Chief Walter Guzzardi with the word that, while covering a political story in Libya, he took a day off to visit Leptis Magna, and was so impressed that he took some of his own color pictures. He sent along his take, thinking that it "might help show what the place looks like...
...Hawaiians from the other islands, who head for the city as agricultural mechanization cuts down the labor force (e.g., the sugar industry now employs 17,000 workers as compared with 55,000 in 1932). A system of state parks and development of small industry on the outer islands will help promote new tourism and new residents, with enough money to pay the tariff...
...democracy," the Communists seemed unable to cope with Gandhi-style passive resistance except by mass arrests, using guns and steel-tipped lathees. On four separate occasions, the police fired into crowds. They killed 15 people, slapped 10,000 Gandhi-style demonstrators in jail. Nor did the Communists help their cause when they openly applauded Red China's brutal invasion of Tibet...
Curses & Scars. As the children grew up, their view of the outside world-except on extremely rare occasions-was through a hole in the iron door less than an inch in diameter. All day the family worked to help father make poison-from 5 a.m. to dusk. The youngsters got no schooling; their vocabularies were not more than 300 words, and they cursed as a matter of course. Their necks were dotted with small scars where their father had pressed his. knife a bit too hard instilling discipline: no whimpering for more food, no asking...
...Senate. And, for the moment, at least, Jorge Alessandri's countrymen are willing to go along with his program. Says a top industrialist: "This is our last chance. Whether we approve of his high-handed, aggressive and independent ways or not, we have got to help...