Word: northerns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most crucial tests of the partnership will come next July 20, when the Northern and Southern Vietnamese must, under Geneva, set the terms for the 1956 elections. Communist Ho, though he has doubled his army-in violation of Geneva-and is acquiring the beginnings of an air force, is openly confident that he will not need to use them to capture South Viet...
...State Department experts looked askance on some of Stalin's claims. They recommended that 1) southern Sakhalin and the northern Kurils should not be annexed by Russia, but should be assigned as trusteeships; and 2) the southern Kurils should be kept for Japan...
...Thai volunteers, her 189 pupils come from all over the land-the children of high government officials and poor shopkeepers, of rich merchants, pedicab drivers and coolies. Eventually, she hopes to build a new $50,000 building, a vocational training center in Bangkok, and an elementary school in northern Chiangmai. But even if those plans never go through, she will have accomplished her mission. "The whole attitude of the Thai people towards the physically handicapped," says she, "has changed entirely." Would she take the credit? "Please look at it this way: the school has helped a great deal...
...West moved swiftly last week to take a new partner into its "northern tier" of Middle East defenses. Stopping over in Baghdad on his way back from Bangkok, Britain's Anthony Eden suggested to Iraq's Premier Nuri es-Said that Britain is ready to join the Turkish-Iraqi alliance and to replace the expiring Anglo-Iraqi pact with a new association . . . in line with those which already exist with Turkey and other partners in NATO. " Britian's connection with Iraq is oil, which is Baghdad's chief source of revenue: $100 million a year...
...wildly distorted, but that they were made at all, across continents and centuries. Science aside, who would want to miss the 12th century hedgehog model that "provides itself with double breathing holes, so that, when it suspects the north wind is going to blow, it can shut up the northern one"? Or the camel which, when sold to a stranger, falls ill in disgust over the price? Animals may not be what the bestiary says they are, but obviously they ought...