Word: marches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stinging Taunts. Early in March each year, Meo tribesmen journey to the small Laotian town of Xiengkhouang, sell their surplus crop at about $30 a kilo to middlemen, hardheaded types who belong to something known as the Corsican brotherhood. From here the business gets into illicit channels and high prices. By pony caravan, or by light planes that take off from jungle airfields built by the French during their five-year war with Communist Viet Minh, the raw opium is transported to Bangkok and Hong Kong, bought by Chinese dealers at up to $1,000 a kilo and refined into...
...arms, he said, and another 600,000 men with military training who could readily be called up. His fast frigates and whining jets patrol both his own coasts and those of next-door Haiti, and he has a special Anti-Communist Foreign Legion of ex-army men, ready to march into Haiti if anti-Trujillo invaders land there...
...Lederle Laboratories, which last week announced that it will boost its live-virus vaccine outlay to $8,000,000, build new production and testing facilities to produce annually 40 million oral doses of vaccine that offer immunity to the three types of polio viruses (TIME, March 16). Lederle has tested the live-virus vaccine on 700,000 people, is hopeful that current tests in South America and the U.S. will prove its effectiveness and safety. Said Lederle General Manager Lyman C. Duncan: "The day is nearing when every newborn infant will be given half a teaspoonful of a clear liquid...
...Yankees was all right with seven other American League managers. For years the National League has had all the excitement-and 1959 is no exception, with a five-team pack nipping regularly at the Milwaukee Braves. But in the American League, a long Yankee lead and a solemn march to the pennant have been the usual condition at half time. Now the Yankees have touched off a scramble: as few as three games have separated the top five teams...
...cinematic monotony. The film is not so much a motion picture as a photographed opera. Just to make sure the customers get the point, Vienna-born Director Otto Preminger has directed most of it as though it were a Bayreuth production of Gōtterdāmmerung, Choruses march and countermarch; actors lumber woodenly about the stage, obviously counting their steps, and then suddenly take up a stance and break into song. And for some strange, wrong reason -perhaps to give the show an elevated, operatic tone-the actors speak in precise, cultivated accents that are miles away from...