Word: pasted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...India last week, the shapes and colors and sounds of older centuries mingled and fell around Dwight Eisenhower, as in a vast kaleidoscope, into strange patterns. Each pattern formed a new sensation, each sensation was etched with the faces of the multitudes reaching out from the tangles of the past toward something of the promising future...
Pipes & Pathans. Six hours out of Turkey, he landed in the brassy, brilliant sun at Karachi's airport to be greeted by Pakistan's President, blunt, Sandhurst-trained General Mohammed Ayub Khan. Together they rode into the city in an open white Cadillac, past half a million cheering people-women in veils or tentlike burgas, tens of thousands of schoolchildren waving flags, armed sailors and soldiers carefully spaced to prevent unruly exuberance. Down the freshly cleaned streets they drove, past prairies of rubble still redolent with the smell of refugees, even though special squads had worked all night...
Kush & Pushtu. Only 70 jet min. away, beyond the crumbled desert hills of Pakistan's northwest frontier, past the snow-covered valleys that nestle in the Hindu Kush where Alexander and his Macedonians trod, lay Kabul and the feudal kingdom of Afghanistan (pop. 13 million). The Afghans, bordered by both the Soviet Union and Red China, are uncommitted in the cold war and wooed with aid from both the Soviets and the U.S. Even as Ike's plane winged over the mountains, an Afghan squadron of Russian-made MIGs took off to escort him toward Kabul...
...hundreds of arbitral and judicial decisions over the past 170 years, it has been almost unheard of for one of the parties to refuse to comply with the decision of a tribunal once it has been rendered. This is so, I believe, for one good reason: if an international controversy leads to armed conflict, everyone loses; if armed conflict is avoided, everyone wins. It is better to lose a point now and then in an international tribunal and gain a world in which everyone lives at peace under a rule...
Under Section 2-B, during the past few years federal arbitrators have prohibited, for example...