Word: offs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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To alert villages ahead of them to prepare horses, yaks, porters and guides, the Dalai Lama depended on Tibet's famed arrow message service, a primitive but effective system under which messages tied to arrows are shot across rivers and deep ravines along key routes. Arrow messages, couriers on...
Alston Hoosman, 38, is a handsome, laughing bulk of a man (6 ft. 5 in., 225 Ibs.) who has always wanted to be a champion. He fought his way up to sixth place on the boxing press's list of U.S. heavyweights before Joe Louis knocked him out in...
A black-tent Bedouin who left off camel herding to study in Egypt and Texas, Tariki is often represented as anti-American (TIME, Oct. 27). At the University of Texas he got a master's degree in petroleum engineering, found an American wife, and then joined the U.S.-owned...
This decidedly unpeaceful form of coexistence began two months ago, after Iran signed a defense agreement with the U.S. and broke off negotiations with Russia (TIME, March 9). In a land where millions are illiterate and hard pressed, where autocratic rule suppresses opposition and corruption is widespread, and where the...
Of the 77,000 Africans put behind barbed wire after the worst of the Mau Mau uprising seven years ago, about 900 are still in Kenya's four remaining detention camps. Many of them, still marked by the blood-oath fanaticism of the old days, are considered cases more...