Word: northerns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this land of paradox, Indian civil airline pilots fly more than 25 million domestic miles a year and jet fighters are being built in Indian factories by Indian workmen. Yet not long ago, when a plane landed for the first time in a district of northern India, peasants tried to feed it hay. The old ways die hard: recently a Westernized and highly educated dean of an Indian law school kept postponing his flight to the U.S. until an auspicious date was selected for him by his astrologer...
Ever since General Ne Win took power in Burma 14 months ago, he has worked conscientiously at clearing Rangoon's garbage-strewn streets, cracking down on Communist rebels in the northern jungles, improving the balance between the nation's agriculture and light industry. But he was one soldier who meant his often expressed desire to step down as soon as possible. Burma's politicians, whose squabbling and corrupt ways led to the military takeover in the first place, got a go-ahead last month with Ne Win's promise of elections in late January or early...
...others feel that Johnson, with pressure on one side from the President and on the other side from the Democratic Advisory Council, may be ready to support repeal. If Johnson tries for the Democratic Presidential nomination, a definite stand against the NDEA affidavit might help him to win Northern liberal voters...
...adjacent 51-home development to Negroes. That night her husband joined 600-odd other homeowners in a march on the town board meeting in the grade school gym. There an angry 1½-hour session proved that the problem of integrated housing can be as grim in northern suburbia as anywhere south of the Mason-Dixon line...
Last week B. B. Benjamin, president of the Jewish Welfare Association of Delhi and Northern India, and onetime Under Secretary of Commerce and Industry in Nehru's government, was looking for ways to ensure "sound education" for his sect. Still more important is a rabbi. "Who can come to the spiritual rescue of these unfortunate remnants in a country of 370 million people?" asks Benjamin. "Only a rabbi with sufficient knowledge of their' background and sympathy with local traditions and customs can save them...