Word: homeland
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Slump in the Summer. Meanwhile, summer replacement shows were working on the theory that entertainment should be as much fun in hot weather as in cold (TIME, June 27). Unhappily, not a single summer show, including two NBC one-shot Spectaculars (Remember-1938 and Allen in Homeland), has yet risen above a depressingly low level of mediocrity...
About 90% of the newcomers pay their own way to their new homeland, but, conscious of her need for human brain and brawn, underpopulated Venezuela spends about $1,000,000 a year recruiting and transporting immigrants and setting them up on farms in the interior. Said a Caracas newspaper: "The republic needs immigrants in abundance to increase our human resources. We ask only that they be men of labor and respectful of our laws...
...Austria will be free," Chancellor Julius Raab triumphantly telephoned back from Moscow to Vienna. "We get back our homeland in its entirety. The war prisoners and other prisoners will see their fatherland again." The Austrian state radio burst into Strauss waltzes and victory marches. The little band of Austrians headed by Raab himself had had little reason to hope for such success when they took off for Moscow last week. For ten long years, and through close to 400 negotiating sessions, the Russians had blocked every Western move to end the occupation of the country which they had promised...
...Lost Homeland. Where did this civilization come from? Few Egyptologists believe that the crude inhabitants of the Nile Valley developed it themselves within a few years. Most specialists think it was imported, probably by conquerors, but they do not know from where. One theory suggests Sumeria, whose cultural development may have begun a little ahead of Egypt's. But only a few items in First Dynasty Egypt look as if they came from Sumeria...
...Andean Custom. Venezuelan independence dates back to 1821, when one of hemisphere history's towering figures, Simón Bolivar, finally drove the Spanish rulers out of his homeland and went on to free the neighboring nations. Bolivar had no illusions that he had brought U.S.-style democracy to the liberated lands; he died predicting that in the Americas, "Ecuador will be the convent, Colombia the university, Venezuela the barracks." He knew his countrymen well; soldiers have ruled Venezuela through most of its history. Many of them were from the high western Andes, where to celebrate their own character...