Word: months
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...said Gallup in still another poll, has slipped back by 3% in the last month to flat out (26% each) with Adlai Stevenson...
...sordid development, Cabazon got more than its share of human tumbleweed, and with it on the hot desert winds came unbridled avarice and violence. The town is stonily accustomed to all sorts of trouble. In Cabazon last month, a Four-square Gospel preacher and a gun-toting bandit-who was shot to death by Los Angeles cops the next night-fought a grim, barefisted battle for the right to buy the festering town dump. In Cabazon last fortnight, two octogenarians battled over a woman...
Cleft Stick. The Reds struck back. Despite the monsoon rains that were pouring down, sweeping away airstrips and flooding the valleys, Communist-led Black Thai tribesmen, trained and equipped in North Viet Nam, last month invaded the remote northern Laotian provinces of Phongsaly and Samneua. Slipping expertly through the suffocating jungle, the Red guerrillas surprised one small Laotian army garrison after another, inflicted 300 casualties on government forces and captured several villages lying astride the classic invasion route into Laos from the battle-renowned village of Dienbienphu...
...glances at the Himalayan buffer states of Sikkim and Bhutan, both of them Indian protectorates, and Ladakh, the eastern portion of India's Kashmir. Indians have long complained of "cartographic aggression" by China in mapping these areas as parts of China. At a mass meeting in Lhasa last month, China's top warlord in Tibet, General Chang Kuo-hua. went further. "Bhutanese, Sikkimese and Ladakhis form a united family in Tibet." said he. "They have always been subject to Tibet and to the great motherland of China. They must once again be united and taught the Communist doctrine...
...flashy Grassi asked Allen for a loan of $30,000 for a month, saying it would save him the trouble of bank charges. Allen obliged with a check drawn on the American Express bank in Rome. Punctually at month's end, Grassi repaid it. After a second $30,000 loan, which he also repaid promptly, Grassi had Allen completely gulled. Grassi rapidly obtained three successive "loans" of American Express funds totaling an incredible $670,000, and Allen concealed the transactions...