Word: northerns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Would like to advise TIME readers who might be contemplating the long trek into the wilderness of northern Maine for a moose hunt to be prepared to pay the fine [of up to $400] which accompanies...
Everybody was caught up in a succession of sequences. Egypt's purchase of Soviet arms had set off the Arab-Israeli tension; Egypt's own dangerous flirtation with the Communists had in turn been set off by the decision of the northern Arab states to side with the West. On that basic Middle East decision, the U.S. and Britain still saw eye to eye. Accompanied by General Sir Gerald Templer, chief of the Imperial General Staff, Britain's Foreign Secretary Harold Macmillan flew to Bagdad for the first Northern Tier meeting under the new Bagdad Pact. Britain...
...taken to a nearby hospital to have his minor head injury treated. Unshaken, he told a TIME correspondent: "Write your magazine that our enemy's attempt to change the situation has failed, and I will be going to Bagdad tomorrow," for the first meeting of the "northern-tier" powers, who are joined in a mutual-defense pact against Communism...
Moscow angrily denounced the Bagdad meeting as "the creation of a new, aggressive alignment" against Russia. Soviet diplomats were dickering to sell arms to Syria, Saudi Arabia and Yemen -all of them countries located south of the line behind which the Northern Tier is supposed to contain Soviet Communism...
...pavilions overflow, and the surplus spills into the streets. Sides of mutton hang along the northern wall of the church of Saint Eustache; mountains of crated cabbages and oranges block the sidewalks for half a mile. Buyers for hotels, restaurants, retail groceries and butcher shops swarm and haggle, crunch over the crushed ice of the fish pavilion to finger white octopuses or boxes of shiny mackerel, delicately press ripe Camemberts and sniff critically at Bries. As dawn breaks, late partygoers pick their way gingerly across the littered gutters to one of the small, famed bistros like...