Word: partes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hong Kong's British government has specific laws against this sort of thing, and Kowloon City sits in a part of the so-called New Territories, which a 19th century Manchu Emperor leased to Britain as part of the crown colony. But only when Kowloon City's rip-roaring illegal activities spilled over too flagrantly onto the island itself some two miles away, have the British tried-not too successfully-to enforce the law there. In 1947 the British tried to clear out thousands of Kowloon squatters, but the Nationalist Chinese then ruling the mainland disputed British authority...
...Assistant Secretary of Commerce for International Affairs Henry Kearns, a former California automobile dealer, gave a blunt answer to the question. Such fears, he told the Toronto Board of Trade, came as a "shock and a surprise" to Americans, who have been "perhaps somewhat naively proud" of the part U.S. capital has played in the economic development of friendly nations -and particularly in Canada's postwar boom. Since 1953, he said, for every dollar withdrawn from Canada as an investment profit, U.S. firms have reinvested more than $2 in Canada's long-term growth. They have paid...
...life, there was time to carry it only through World War I before liver cancer killed him. Ironically, despite all the evidence of a lifetime's discipleship, Jones to the last wrote scathingly of disciples, insisting: "I have always been much too independent to play that part...
...John Lewis, who make jazz sound like a 19th century tone poem. With a sharp, clear vibes, a versatile piano, a bass and a set of traps, the quartet warmed up with a cool version of I'll Remember April, approached mastery in its last offering, a three-part number (The Singer, Harlequin, Contessa) delivered in a boogie-woogie, bass-led tempo and highlighted by an atonal, polyphonic piano...
...front page of its literary section one day last week, Mexico City's daily Novedades (News) printed what it called "testimony against that type of journalism that ought to disappear." Part of the testimony was a letter lifted from the Cuban embassy last winter after Fidel Castro's bearded revolutionaries toppled the Batista regime. Written by Oscar de la Torre, Batista's Ambassador to Mexico at the time, the letter confirmed what everyone had long suspected-that Aldo Baroni, columnist for Mexico City's daily Excelsior, had taken money to say nice things about Dictator Batista...