Word: popped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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...
Last year, when De Gaulle visited the Senegalese capital of Dakar (pop. 230,000), its leaders stayed away with diplomatic illnesses, and crowds held aloft DE GAULLE GO HOME signs, as the general rode through the streets. But last week everyone was happy with the new state of affairs. Premier Keita told a mass meeting at Dakar's sport stadium: "The stranger who comes to our house is like a god. Ladies and gentlemen, you must treat De Gaulle...
...Flags. At stake was control of Africa's biggest nation (pop. 35 million), which gets its independence from Britain next October. Taxi drivers shouted slogans at one another through the traffic; staffs of business firms, and even families, split into opposing camps. Two bickering brothers reached a compromise by flying Zik's flag at the front of their house, Awolowo's at the back...
...American Medical Association gathered in Dallas last week, selected as "Family Doctor of the Year" Dr. Chesley M. Martin, 70, native of South Carolina, who has practiced in Elgin, Okla. (pop. 450 by his best estimate) since 1915, has delivered about 2,500 babies in 1,200 sq. mi. of ranch country. At first he made house calls on horseback, graduated to what he calls a "T-model" within a year. Dr. Martin rarely charges more than $2 for an office visit, dispenses his own drugs, described his plans for retirement in a word: none...
...tubes for Dutch physicians. Seeing radio coming, they were turning out receiver and even transmitter tubes by 1919. After Gerard retired in 1922, Anton aggressively expanded, set up Philips plants in most countries of the world. Today from Eindhoven, one of Europe's biggest company towns (pop. 160,000), Anton's son-in-law. President Frans Otten, and Anton's son. Vice President Frits Philips, direct an industrial empire that has 66,000 employees in Holland, 114,000 in the rest of the world. It thus rates after General Electric as the largest employer in its field...