Word: parallelisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Just how wan was demonstrated last week in Viet Nam, where a parallel control commission, set up at the end of the Indo-China war, still operates. The U.S. presented evidence of a huge arms buildup in North Viet Nam, but the Polish member voted against an on-the-spot inspection, and the Indian chairman agreed...
PACIFIC AIR CARRIERS will get no more competition on current routes. Eisenhower turned down CAB recommendation that Pan American and Northwest Orient get parallel routes with each other and with foreign flag lines between U.S. and Japan. Ike feared new routes might "adversely affect" foreign relations, also found that forecast of only 17 revenue passengers a day in five years made further competition uneconomical...
...most recent historical parallel to Monday's incident occurred during the Civil War, Albion reported. In spring, 1861, a bunch of Confederate soldiers hijacked a coastal steamer and, after an abortive attempt to sneak up on a Union supply ship, turned the passenger boat into a raider...
...almost a precise parallel to the 1956 case of Negro Coed Autherine Lucy, suspended by the University of Alabama for her own "safety" after mob pressure and then expelled because she charged that it was a put-up job. The Georgia riot got an extra touch of disrespect for law when at 2:30 a.m. the Governor's executive secretary, Peter Zack Geer, commended the mob: "The students at the university have demonstrated that Georgia youth are possessed with the character and courage not to submit to dictatorship and tyranny...
...Natural adversities without parallel in the past 100 years," said the Red Chinese last week, are to blame for China's serious food shortages. But just how serious is only slowly becoming known. Last week Radio Peking reported that a total of 148 million acres, or more than half Red China's cultivated land, had been affected to some degree. For 40 days the lower stream of the great Yellow River itself was dried up almost completely. Because of the drought, four provinces in the Yellow River valley were virtually without water for periods ranging from seven...