Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Indonesians love peace as well. In the soft scented night each village resounds with the rhythmic, curiously tuneful gamelan music of bowl-shaped gongs, bamboo flutes, metal keys, two-stringed violins. Fluid-fingered dancers will hold an audience enchanted all the night long; wayang puppet shows, telling the heroic legends of the past, run from sunset to dawn. Yet together with the industriousness and mannered behavior of the Indonesian is the wild agony of the amok, when a man for no clear reason will throw off all restraint and race through his village wielding his razor-sharp parang against everything...
...continent where general-presidents have all too often tried to perpetuate themselves in office. Aramburu's conduct had an exemplary effect well beyond the borders of Argentina. Items: ¶Colombia's five-man military junta, which will hold an election March 16. says: "We shall turn over our powers to a civilian President at 3 p.m.. Aug. 7. 1958." ¶Venezuela's provisional President. Rear Admiral Wolfgang Larrazabal. promises elections for a constituent assembly before the year...
...Educators who hold that the nation's schools have turned into public-supported playrooms (see above) got some sharp if incomplete statistical support from a survey of Texas schools by a group of ten Texas school superintendents and school-board members. Of the schools giving answers to various questions of the survey, 112 out of 232 allow private music and/or dancing lessons on school time; 188 out of 220 give credit for band time, physical education, chorus, etc.; 166 out of 218 allow athletic teams to eat up school hours with practice sessions. ¶More than half the nation...
Synthetic Sod. A new, weed-retarding method of sowing lawns has been developed by Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Co. A green mat of synthetic fibers containing grass seed is unrolled on the soil giving a lawnlike appearance while the grass takes hold and keeping out weeds. It disappears as the lawn grows. Price...
Disillusion at Dawn. At the novel's outset, the major-driven by a pitiable need to search for whatever goads some men to bravery-has got hold of one medal candidate. Thorn gets permission to escort him, and whomever else he finds worthy of the medal, back to the rear-area encampment at Cordura. Next day he watches his old regiment clatter through a last cavalry charge, and with judgment perhaps clouded by shame, picks the four most spectacular performers of the battle to receive the medal. With his five picked soldiers and a saddle-toughened woman prisoner...