Word: mets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Jumping their cue by two days, 1,500 Greek teen-agers swirled into the twisted alleyways of Nicosia, swarmed into a cathedral chanting: "Enosis" (Union with Greece). Outside, they were met by black-helmeted security police. Recruited from the Turkish Cypriot community by the British, the "Black Turks" are hated by the Greek Cypriots. Truncheons came, down on the backs of screaming boys and girls. Tear-gas shells were lobbed into crowds of rock-hurling youngsters...
...Manhattan for the windup of their genial father's U.S. visit, Morocco's veilless Princesses Aisha (TIME, Nov. n), Malika and Nuzha met local newsfolk, acquitted themselves well through French and Arabic interpreters. Their little sister Amina, 4. skipped the conference in favor of a nap. A newshen inquired: "Is the Princess Aisha engaged?" Ignoring her linguistic aides, Aisha snapped a prompt no in English. Then someone inquired whether dynamic Feminist Aisha is regarded by Moroccan women as her country's own Joan of Arc. "Certainly not!" she replied, eyes twinkling. "Wasn't she known...
...incorrigibles in separate schools rather than allowing them to muddy the ones they are in. Though he agrees that the public schools must meet the needs of each child, he also thinks that "there comes a time when we've got to say: 'All right. We have met your needs. Now show us some results...
...weeks he trebled his capital. Indian Banker G. D. Birla, whom Graham met in San Francisco at the International Industrial Development Conference (TIME, Oct. 28), made good on a promise to match the capital in rupees. Another Indian millionaire promised an additional $200,000 in rupees; two textile magnates raised $25,000 more. Indian Industrialist J. R. D. Tata, owner of 25-company Tata enterprises (TIME, Sept. 30), is expected to come in soon...
...swarming native India last week was California's lively Democratic Congressman Dalip Singh Saund. At 58, the representative from Imperial and Riverside counties, home after 37 years, was keeping his campaign promise to try to help improve U.S.-Indian relations. He lunched with Nehru, attended a parliamentary conference, met the populace in the streets and meeting halls. By far the most listened-to and most welcomed unofficial U.S. ambassador that India had ever seen, Saund turned in a performance that undoubtedly got closer to thousands of India's doubters than any official U.S. envoy before...