Word: pops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...French up to? Since they lost the Indo-China war at Dienbienphu and Geneva, the French have been maneuvering desperately to save what they call "the French presence" in both halves of divided Viet Nam, which once gave them 10% of their foreign trade. In Communist North Viet Nam (pop. 12 million), a mission headed by Jean Sainteny has been haggling for trade concessions. Sainteny would also like to open new trade routes into Red China through the North Viet Nam port of Haiphong (which the French, under Geneva's terms, must evacuate next week). The French admit that...
...Nationalist South Viet Nam (pop. 10½ million), the French, through Bao Dai. still manipulate discredited sects in divide-and-rule techniques against Diem, hoping to undermine the Nationalists and maintain their colonial influence. "A personal failure . . . imposed from outside," the official French radio characterized Diem fortnight...
...Congo boom makes its cities grow like well-nourished bamboo shoots. In six years the Negro population of Elisabethville has jumped from 40,000 to 120,000, Costermansville from 7,000 to 25,000, Stanleyville from 25,000 to 48,000. But the pride of the Congo is Leopoldville (pop. 370,000), a bustling, modern metropolis that is spreading along the south bank of Stanley Pool...
...count in Ludwig Bemelmans' 1941 travel book about Ecuador, The Donkey Inside. If the count (or Bemelmans) were to visit Ecuador this week, he might have to eat those cynical words. One of South America's backward nations has been undergoing a healthy change. Since 1950, Ecuador (pop...
...hits and one run in the first inning, but steadied down, allowing only one man to reach third thereafter. B.C.'s most serious threat came in the fifth when a single by first baseman and a walk to pitcher Ed Buckley opened the inning. Rossano got Eddie Miller to pop up to the catcher and the inning ended two pitches later when shortstop Bill Cleary went far into the hole to start a double play...