Word: longing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ugly yellow brick Defense Ministry, he put seven committees to work on crash programs, one reorganizing the army (and negotiating with Moscow for arms), a second restudying Iraq's foreign policy, another drafting a new constitution, a fourth drawing up an electoral law to regulate the long-promised return of "normal" political activity on Jan. 6. By that date Kassem himself hopes to reassert his position as "sole leader" dominating the political parties...
...week two Soviet ships, Tobolsk and Krilyon, steamed into Japan's Niigata harbor to pick up the first load of 975 repatriates, who had marched to the embarkation center waving red flags and singing The Song of Kim II Sung. The minds of most of their passengers had long been prepared by Soren, the Communist-financed society that controls 90% of Korean schools in Japan. The Koreans had had an undeniably miserable time in Japan. After years of work, most had less than 15,000 yen ($42) to their names. In an old U.S. Air Force barracks, they slept...
Lonely Force. Neither Prado nor any other political leader proposes to wipe out Latin America's armed services, long a necessary and sometimes a lonely force for stability. Even in democratic Brazil, President Juscelino Kubitschek rules today because the army four years ago staged a "preventive coup" to nip a plot against him. The Argentine military backs Frondizi against mob pressures. In Guatemala the military academy is dubbed the "school of Presidents" because it trained four of the last five chief executives...
...knows the Atlantic almost as well as his own washbowl. Grandpa Max Conrad, 57, who has crossed that ocean 56 times on solo flights in light aircraft, set down at Washington's Army and Navy Club to get a yard-high, gold-plated trophy honoring two recent record long-distance hops. To a bug-eyed audience he told an eye-bugging tale of a slight mishap on his nonstop flight from Casablanca to Los Angeles (7,688.48 mi.) last June, when he spent a sleepless 58 hr. 38 min. in the cockpit of a single-engined Piper Comanche. Just...
When she began teaching English at Venice (Calif.) High School, Florence Russell, 28, was determined to enrich the minds of her students. She got a supply of good paperbacks for students to buy if they wished. Principal Walter Larsh approved so long as no student was compelled to buy the books (against the law). Teacher Russell's 51 juniors snapped up the books, though pennies are scarce in Venice, a brassy seaside settlement on the western edge of Los Angeles...