Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week's end, Smuts was to start a 5,000-mile tour of South Africa for other celebrations-notably to receive the keys of a cottage built for him on the slopes of Table Mountain by the people of Capetown. Then illness interfered: he was bedded with a recurrence of the sciatica he first developed while mountain-climbing several months...
March of Science. In Atlanta, a 17-year-old mountain girl, admitted to Georgia Baptist Hospital for a bladder operation, was unimpressed when she received her first telephone call (from her mother), commented: "At home Ma'd be right there-and I could hear her better...
Another conference on Southeast Asia will convene this week in the Philippine mountain resort of Baguio. At the invitation of Carlos Romulo, newly appointed Philippine Secretary of Foreign Affairs, delegates from the Philippines, Korea, India, Pakistan, Siam, Indonesia, Australia and New Zealand will discuss economic and cultural cooperation and a vague proposal for a Southeast Asian union. According to Host Romulo, the conference would be "nonCommunist" rather than "anti-Communist," which was another way of saying that in all likelihood it would produce doubletalk instead of concrete action. Romulo himself last week gave a preview of the doubletalk. Said...
...frontier and a new ally in the cold war. The place is Indo-China, a Southeast Asian jungle, mountain and delta land that includes the Republic of Viet Nam and the smaller neighboring Kingdoms of Laos and Cambodia, all parts of the French Union...
...Sunday night in May, 1925, "The Garrick Gaieties" opened at the Garrick Theatre, with a cast of Theatre Guild understudies and chorus members. The public and critics were enraptured; people went around humming "Sentimental Me" and "Mountain Greenery" the Theatre Guild got its new curtain; and Rodgers and Hart had written their first...