Word: northern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...story is set and photographed on Hokkaido, a northern island of Japan where the principal occupation of the people is horsebreeding. The farm community involved has been greatly influenced by the American occupation in dress and manners, but still retains a few of its ancient customs. Unlike most of the Eastern films that have been shown in America recently, this is a modern-day drama in modern-day Japan, and only occasional shots of the traditional rituals suggest the people's old cultural ways...
...mile frontier between Burma and Communist China runs through some of the world's wildest country. In its southern reaches, the limestone mountains of the Shan States rise to almost 9,000 feet, and at its northern end, snowcapped Himalayan peaks push up to more than twice that height. At lower altitudes, an average annual rainfall of 200 inches produces thick jungle cut only by swift-running rivers and an occasional trail. Scattered through this wilderness is a confusing melange of primitive peoples-gentle Shans, timid Palaungs, and the warlike little Kachins who, under U.S. officers, harried the Japanese...
...ever since the British seized Upper Burma in 1885. On a variety of dubious grounds, including the fact that a 9th century Burmese kingdom once paid tribute to China's T'ang emperors, Chinese rulers from the Empress Dowager to Chiang Kai-shek claimed large chunks of northern Burma. The Chinese Reds, after their conquest of mainland China in 1949, redrew the map to show the disputed areas as part of China, and then waited for history to confirm their...
...Oklahoma City's northern edge, in 41 acres of what was once part of a golf course, workmen are busy this week installing an organ in the Church of Tomorrow. That is what Pastor Bill Alexander calls it. Some Oklahomans refer to it as Space Headquarters, and that is all right with Pastor Bill. For his First Christian Church is all but out of this world...
...head the agency, World Bank President Eugene Black (TIME, June 25) tapped one of his own top lieutenants, Mississippi-born Robert L. (for Livingston) Garner, 61, who still talks in a deep Southern drawl, despite his 37 years as a Northern banker-businessman (vice president of Manhattan's Guaranty Trust Co., General Foods Corp. and, since 1947, the World Bank). Garner's IFC starts with a fund of $78.4 million, hopes to prove that private enterprise in underdeveloped countries pays off, attract other investors who might normally be wary of investing in backward lands...