Word: offs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Good Old Days. Cool breezes drifted gently across the golden grain of rice paddies that step up the lush green tropical mountains ringing Formosa's capital. Farther south, water, buffaloes dragged plows for peak-capped farmers turning soil for one of their three yearly rice crops. Nearby lay fields...
Recently, Tokyo moppets made friends with personable young Himansu Neogy, a Calcutta exporter who had taken time off during a business trip to visit the city's schools. They gave him bouquets of flowers, posed with him for group pictures. When Neogy was about to go back to India...
Calm Intention. Many Republican leaders seemed calmly confident of their ability to maintain order and check Communism in Indonesia. At week's end, President Soekarno repeated that he had no intention of yielding to Communist pressure, but warned that the Communists in Indonesia would grow stronger every day that...
The threat never came off. St. Laurent, a French Canadian, proved the perfect answer to the cardinal rule of Canadian politics: never lose the French vote. French-speaking Quebec went Liberal almost 100%. (In Montreal, the only nonLiberal candidate elected was mammoth Mayor Camillien Houde, who ran as an independent...
When one motor of their chartered twin-engine Lockheed conked out 60 miles from Columbus, Ohio, Vice President Alben Berkley and a planeload of Washington brass, including Attorney General Tom Clarlc, Postmaster General Jesse Donaldson, and Air Secretary Stuart Symington, made a safe emergency landing. After an hour's...