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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Born: Dec. 1, 1920, in Saint-Ceré (pop. 2,547) in France's Massif Central, youngest of an architect's seven children. Baptized Pierre...
Cambodia (pop. over 4,000,000) is a country of Buddhists lying directly in the path of Communist expansion in Southeast Asia. During the Indo-China war, three battalions of Vietminh Communist troops entered Cambodia, and Red China claimed that a "resistance" government was in being. But after last year's general election in which Norodom, stepping down from the throne to lead his own political party, won all 91 seats of the National Assembly, the Communists reversed their tactic. With soft words, Communist Leader Ho Chi Minh suggested a diplomatic exchange with Norodom. Nothing doing, replied Norodom. "Your...
...Tigris and the Euphrates-the land once known as Mesopotamia. The oil that calked the walls of Babylon and may have fired the furnace through which Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego walked unscathed now bubbles through huge pipelines to the Mediterranean. Its flow is so fabulous that it makes Iraq (pop. 5,000,000) the world's sixth petroleum-producing country...
...board is also busy with other good works: $50.4 million for schools, hospitals and other public buildings, $75 million for roads and bridges. Its new $30 million refinery provides Iraq with gasoline at 15? a gallon (though heavy taxes lift it up to 29? a gallon). Ancient, reeking Baghdad (pop. 550,000), which bears almost no resemblance to the flower-decked Arabian Nights pleasure dome that the Caliph Harun al-Rashid (786-809) shared so opulently with 2,000,000 subjects, is getting low-cost housing, a sewage system, some badly needed modern streets, and the promise of room...
...Kentucky manufacturing city of Mayfield (pop. 8,990), churches have had so much difficulty finding all the poor parishioners that for the past three years they have relied on a newspaper campaign to search out needy families for their annual "White Christmas" baskets of food, toys and clothes. ¶In Nashville, the McKendree Memorial Methodist Church found it had to liberalize its definition of "needy" and, even so, managed to give away only three-fourths as many baskets as last year...