Word: patches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Japan's mutual defense pact with the U.S. Buffeted by three crushing local and national election defeats in the past 16 months, the Socialists gathered last week under huge red flags in Tokyo's Nine Steps Hall, to debate the reasons for their fading popularity and to patch up party squabbles. But after five days of noisy fist shaking, they were more divided than ever...
...horn of Africa hangs a backward, poverty-stricken strip of land inhabited by leopards, crocodiles and some 1,300,000 camel-and goat-herding nomads. Back in the19th century after the British, French and Italians helped themselves in imperial fashion to slices of the coast bordering Ethiopia, this desert patch was known as Italian Somaliland. In Mussolini's heyday it became a bridgehead for his conquest of Italian East Africa. Now after years of somnolence, it is back in the news-once again as a trouble spot. The Italians, who kept postwar control of their onetime colony under...
...Basin (TIME, June 1) seems to be heading for amicable settlement. At first, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru had hard words for the government of Pakistan's General Mohammed Ayub Khan ("a naked military dictatorship"). But Ayub's incorruptibility, his undeniable popularity, and his own sensible willingness to patch things up with India has done a lot to diminish the enmities that grew out of the violent partition of India and Pakistan twelve years ago, when between half a million and a million people were killed...
...keep the interior of the paddle-wheel satellite at an even temperature range as it passes from the cool shadow of the earth into the blazing heat of the naked sun, Explorer VI has on its outer skin a patch of black-carbon paint. A thermostat actuates a small shield that alternately covers and uncovers the patch as heat requirements dictate. Since the satellite uses electricity much faster than the paddle wheels can make it signals from the earth periodically shut of the largest of Explorer VI's three radio transmitters. A memory device called Telebit takes over, stores...
...Hathaway shirts' man-with-the-eye-patch series (probably no other campaign "has been so widely copied in seeking a startling device to break advertising monotony...