Word: na
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hole through the symbol of one's choice. Electoral officers plodded through the jungles to advertise the election with cartoon movies and singing pup pet shows. Sample song: "Let's all go there, brother, brother. Let's all go vote ... to be respected and defend the na tional state." At stake were 260 seats in a parliament that will govern Indonesia at least until year's end, when a constitutional assembly will be elected to write a permanent constitution for the republic. At issue was whether Indonesia reverts to the neurotic, fuzzily pro-Communist path...
There was a noticeable chill in the air at the White House one day last week after Charles McWhorter, the newly elected chairman of the Young Republican Na tional Federation, read Ike a resolution that the organization had passed at its convention. The resolution ,urged Ike to run. When McWhorter finished reading it in the perfectly enunciated tones of a network announcer, Ike's comment was: "Well, you got through all of that perfectly." Later in the week, as he toured through New Hampshire, Ike set the political Geiger counters to clacking. At every stop he sounded more...
President Maurice E. Paradise, of Na tional Fabricated Products, is sure that the solar batteries can be made much more cheaply. He hopes that eventually the magic silicon can be sprayed on a sur face as a crystalline metallic varnish. Then really big batteries will be cheap. They are rugged and last practically forever. A house roofed with sun-absorbing silicon could generate all the current it needs whenever the sun is shining...
...hours all plans were dovetailed, all differences ironed out. The ministers agreed to meet with other NATO representatives in Paris on July 10, as a prelude to Geneva. As the diplomats parted, the new confidence was salted with a grain of caution. Said Antoine Pinay: "It would be very naïve to take signs as proof of Russia's peaceful intentions. You don't tear up your insurance policy merely because an architect comes and tells you your house is well built...
...performer named Wang Ming-chung played the part of the immortal Monkey King who defeated the gods in a rough-and-tumble battle. Finally came an acrobatic ballet and a short, exotic concert on stage, featuring such instruments as the hsiao (bamboo flute), sheng (a super mouth organ), hsiao-na (a straight wooden bugle with a copper bell) and several small drums. When it was all over and the audience was applauding thunderously, the whole troupe appeared onstage and returned the applause-an innovation of the Communists to show solidarity between workers onstage...