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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like Alice, U.S. motorists, whose lot it is to dodge potholes, fight traffic jams and search for nonexistent parking spaces, last week.won a privileged peek through their rearview mirrors into a magic world of wheels where things obviously go the other way. Home again in Madras, India (pop. 1,500.000) after a 50-day tour of Washington. D.C., New York City, Los Angeles and eleven other U.S. cities. Captain Dinakar Gnanaolivu. chairman of the Madras City Improvement Trust, summed up his impressions of U.S. traffic in Madras' daily Hindu...
AFGHANISTAN. This small (pop. 12 million) but strategic country has accepted $145 million in Soviet credits, now ranks among the five top recipients of Russian aid. The bulk of the Soviet money has gone to finance arms purchases, hydroelectric projects, grain elevators, a flour mill and a bakery. The Russians' most conspicuously successful gesture in winning Afghan good will was paving the streets of Kabul-a project that had been turned down by the U.S. as economically unproductive. Despite signs that its rulers are worried at the prospect of sinking too deep into the Soviet embrace, nearly half...
...force officers of equal or lesser rank. Mostly U.S.-trained and democratically minded, they had apparently planned to rebel much later. Instead, New Year's Eve turned into a night of feverish speedup. From their barracks the paratroopers and others smoothly took over the city of Maracay (pop. 80,000) and the air bases. Before 6:30 a.m., two Sabre jets whined off to Caracas. Over Radio Maracay, the rebels announced: "We have cornered the gangster who surrounded himself with thieves and murderers...
...James Whitcomb Riley, "the poetical ass with the three-story name," railed at a clergyman-critic as a "monstrous bag of fetid wind," adding: "The man who can find intellectual food in [his] sermons could acquire a case of delirium tremens by drinking the froth out of a pop bottle." The son of a Presbyterian minister, he rang some of his angriest cadences against anti-Catholic bigots, called them "equal to any crime requiring no physical courage...
...teacher or parent in the city of Evanston. Ill. (pop. 75,300) cared more deeply about the Orrington elementary school than Swedish-born Hjalmar Andersson. For 23 years as janitor, he kept the building clean and in good repair: no matter how much there was to do, he always had time to joke or chat with the pupils and listen to their troubles. But for all his good humor, Janitor Andersson is a stubborn man. Last week he was barred from the school he loves because of a rather odd and lonely crusade...