Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...supporters in the Assembly had gone off on freeloading junkets to the Soviet Union. Many of Bangkok's dozens of newspapers were accepting Red bribes in return for attacking Sarit and the U.S. The embittered aristocrats who dream of re-creating the Thailand of the past were giving covert support to the Communists and other opposition leaders. Premier Thanom, who had not wanted his job in the first place, seemed to be floundering...
...entire people to the level of robots (TIME, Oct. 20) came the nightingale song of Radio Peking: "The people's communes are paradises. Manpower and material resources are more than in heaven. Industry and agriculture leap forward together, and one year equals thousands of years in the past...
...Louisiana State (6-0)-only unbeaten-untied member of the Top Ten, needed a field goal in the last three minutes to get past Florida...
...jumps faultlessly in 38.6 seconds. Then a slim young Mexican girl galloped to the starting line, her dark hair bobbing out from under her black riding cap in a pert ponytail. Vicki Mariles swept her horse over the rail jump, safely navigated the spread jump, and swept past the finish line in an amazing 36.9 seconds to beat Winkler and win her first international trophy...
...longtime painter-around-Paris, Miró has lived in his native Spain since World War II, five years ago began new experiments in ceramics in collaboration with his old friend Josep Llorens-Artigas (TIME, Jan. 7, 1957). For the past two years he has been working hard on his UNESCO mural. Its imaginative images combine childlike delight with echoes of primitive Catalan signs and symbols. Once Miró destroyed one whole wall when it failed to please him, and began again. "Guessing the color of ceramic is like cooking a biscuit-you never know how it will come out," explained...