Word: mets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Journey to Peking. Returning to Lhasa, the 17-year-old Dalai Lama received the Red emissaries with frank curiosity. Much of what they proposed-schools, roads, hospitals, light industry-met his approval. Many Tibetans welcomed the break with the feudal past, argued: "We must learn modern methods from someone-why not the Chinese?" The Dalai Lama made a six-month visit to Mao Tse-tung's new China, listened patiently to lectures on Marxism and Leninism, saw factories, dams, parades. Back in Tibet, Red technicians set to work. Some 3,000 Tibetan students were shipped off to school...
...thousand such people "marched" on Washington in early April to let the Administration see that the problem was a real one. They were met by that fine, old, "prosperity-is-just-around-the-corner" line which Republican officials have found so handy in times of economic crisis. Specifically, they were told--in a Labor Department press conference clearly aimed at quieting them--that unemployment was on the decline, that the problem was licked, that they could go home and trust...
...Fitzgerald, Fred Howard, and possibly Benjamin will meet Cadets Ted Benz, the Heps winner, and Dick Healy in the mile, a key event. Fitzgerald outdueled Healy when the Crimson met Army last winter, but since then Benz has come into his own, soundly defeating Fitzgerald in the Heptagonals. Howard has improved, too, and any one of five men could take first place...
...James ranch, Hope is met by Ma James (Mary Young), a dear little old lady with a rifle in her lap. As she oils it she quavers, "Ah'm jes' cleanin' up after the boys." Next morning Jesse announces wearily that he has to get up early and go to work-there's a man he has to kill. Ma pipes up. "Promise me you'll wear rubbers, son." But Hope rides out to the duel instead, rigs his guns to fire when he tips his hat, drops his man, saves the policy, captures...
Vice President Richard M. Nixon, Acting Secretary of State Christian A. Herter, and Central Intelligence Chief Allen W. Dulles, the ailing secretary's brother, met him at the airport when his plane arrived...