Word: northerns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Snow still lay in the Rockies, New England, and a tier of states across the northern border. But sap was rising early to branch and bud; despite flurries of wintry weather, there had already been days of sun in the coldest states, when gutters tinkled musically to streams from melting drifts. Many Vermont farmers had buckets out in their maple-sugar groves. Though Lake Erie is normally frozen solid far into March, the Nicholson Transit Co. freighter James Watt made a trial run from Detroit to Toledo last week, and found only one insignificant patch of drifting...
Russell served notice that the South would no longer tolerate a Democratic Party led by Northern "liberals" who blast Southern devotion to states' rights and "the right of private property" as "reactionary." (Though he named no names, Russell's listeners easily conjured up visions of such Americans for Democratic Action-style Democrats as Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey and New York's Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr.) "There are those who would have us drink of the fatal potion of national state socialism," said Russell. "We must resolutely reject their enticements...
Denmark's tiny army, a link in NATO's northern anchor chain, was shaken last week by ugly spasms of mutiny. On strategic Bornholm Island, 200 draftees went on a disobedience strike, called on "all watches to leave their posts." At Holbaek on Zealand Island, 300 men refused to eat their rations, and bought hot dogs instead. Worst of all, a batch of 100 conscripts from the 9th Regiment of the King's Own Foot Guards set off for Copenhagen on a protest march. Other malcontents were prepared to join them on the way to the capital...
...villages in the area, only one in five is completely under Viet Nam control. Many tiny villages live in terror of the Communists, pay them tribute in rice and young recruits. How to cut off these villages from Communist influence is a problem which has long occupied northern Viet Nam Governor Nguyen Huu Tri. After long study he settled on a scheme successfully adopted by the British in Malaya-resettlement of peasants in protected villages. Fruitlessly he tried to talk the French military command into a three-part plan to 1) regroup scattered villages into strong farmers' communities...
After six years as President of Mexico, Miguel Alemán was still much too active at 50 to retire to the somnolent dignity of elder-statesmanship. As a private citizen jealous of his privacy, Alemán left the capital to live on his ranches in northern Mexico. An office was set up in his name in Mexico City, but it had the hushed calm of a mortuary. His real business affairs were apparently being conducted in seemly privacy by close associates whom he had raised to wealth and power. Except for an occasional speech, the ex-President dropped...