Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time plays tricks in primitive Laos, where communications are so poor that reports from the provinces are often as deceptive as stars that are burned out and dead by the time their light finally reaches the earth. Fact was that 29 hours before Phoumi spoke an estimated 4,000 fresh Communist troops, including North Vietnamese regulars, had come sweeping out of Viet Nam across the Nam Ma river into Samneua province. With their attack the situation in Laos changed from merely ugly to critical...
With a new McNaught Syndicate writer-artist team set to pump fresh ink into Joe, his prospects for an early retirement have faded fast. Best guess is that Joe's son will indeed be born. But poor Joe may never see the life as the worker for good causes that Leff had planned. Instead, to earn his living-and contribute to the McNaught Syndicate's income-Joe is more than likely to be tossed back into the ring with the rest of the palookas...
Army officers were cheered by word last week that the U.S. will soon airlift supplies-such items as tents. Jeeps, small arms and radio sets-to aid them. But the main difficulty of staunchly anti-Communist Premier Phoui Sananikone lies in the fact that the poor, discontented, primitive half of Laos' 2,000,000 people have never developed loyalty to the central government...
WANTED DEAD OR ALIVE-"Some episodes are (perhaps fortunately) far too mature for children to comprehend. For youth and adults alike, the total effect is one of confusion, distortion and terror -an effect compounded by the poor quality of much of the acting...
Those unwashed minstrels of the West, the beatniks of San Francisco's North Beach and Los Angeles' Venice West, make much of their loud vows of poverty. To be poor, yak the shirtless ones as they sit scratching in store-front espresso halls, is to be holy, man, holy. But last week, the mendicants of marijuana and mad verse were in the somewhat embarrassing position of monks whose liqueur sells too well. Tourists were snapping up their stuff like Chinese back-scratchers, and the beatniks were starting to rake in the dough...