Word: metropolises
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By midweek Canberra (symbolically, the only U.S. Navy cruiser named for a foreign capital,* and for a British Commonwealth metropolis at that) was due in Hamilton, Bermuda, to be welcomed by Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan. Once ashore, Ike faced a four-day conference that might well range...
"We felt that our particular type of crusade could at best only make a dent in New York City," writes Billy. "Time after time, as we stood in the midst of this throbbing metropolis, we felt our inadequacy to accept this challenge . . . Protestantism in New York is in an extreme...
When a public dance hall named Roseland opened on Broadway in 1919, smart young people had recently deserted the waltz for the foxtrot, were just beginning to master the delicate nuances of the shimmy. Sam Lanin and his Ipana Troubadours were on the bandstand, thumping out such Ziegfeld Follies hits...
Last week Prefect Dupuch had 80,000 French troops in action in his département. He said he needed 80,000 more. Fully one-third of Algeria north of the Sahara was in a state of siege. Stations, tent camps, truck parks and supply dumps were corseted in barbed...
The French are determined to hang onto North Africa. The richest and most troubled part of it is Morocco. Larger than California and potentially as productive, Morocco is corrugated by the ranges of the Atlas Mountains. In the south is the Sahara, but in the north and west, along the...