Word: northerns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hanoi for two days, Ely inspected the wary defenses and conferred with IndoChina's Commanding General Henri Navarre and the northern-front commander, General Rene Cogny. During these days the generals outlined a new command strategy: 1) Concentrate! Cogny must pull back from isolated forts, must rally for modern battle at selected centers in the plains; 2) Reinforce! Cogny must have at least two fresh divisions, about 30,000 men, to prop up the delta's teetering 70,000-man garrison. Ely was also reportedly ready to recommend Navarre's recall. Said one French officer when...
...166th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (northern) voted unanimous approval of a plan to unite its 2,581,580-member denomination with two other U.S. Presbyterian groups - the 718,791-member Presbyterian Church in the U.S. (southern) and the 2 2 2,201-member United Presbyterian Church of North America. Next steps in the merger: approval by two-thirds of the U.S.A. Presbyterians' 257 regional presbyteries, similar approval by the General Assemblies and presbyteries of the other two denominations...
...India, officials were rosily pleased to see the U.S. forced into a secondary role at Geneva. Nehru told his Parliament that a real model for Asian agreements was his new pact with China, in which India meekly accepted the Red Chinese conquest of its northern neighbor, Tibet. Nehru made clear to those who had missed the point over the years that India was not ready to join any alliance to resist Communist expansion...
Burning Crosses. In various Northern and border states, integration has taken place at the school level. Out of 25 communities investigated for the report, only Cairo, 111. experienced any major disorders. There, "crosses were burned, shots were fired into the homes of two local Negro leaders, and a charge of dynamite was exploded outside the home of a Negro physician." Nevertheless, by the end of the first semester 17 Negro children were attending white schools, and by 1953 the number had jumped...
High in the Austrian Alps, melting snow cascades in a great torrent down the sides of the Reiffeck and Kreuzeck Mountains. Why not, thought the Austrian government, harness this energy for power? Austria could use it in its reconstruction, and the surplus could be sold to northern Italy's heavy industries. There was just one problem: Where would Austria get the money to build a hydroelectric plant? Last week Austrian Ambassador to the U.S. Karl Gruber went to the place that could help supply the funds. He marched into the office of Eugene R. Black, president of the World...