Word: pops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Asia, the U.S. has no better friend than hustling, bustling Mohammed Ali, 45, who runs the world's sixth largest nation (pop. nearly 80 million). "I'm on the side of the U.S.," he has said. "I think personally that the U.S. is doing a great job, and I want...
While this complex set of circumstances is affecting the whole campaign in New Jersey, it is wound tightest around Clifford Case Jr., a gaunt (6 ft, 158 Ibs.), intense, intelligent lawyer from Rahway (pop. 21,000), who is the Republican nominee for U.S. Senator...
...handed to a silently weeping colonel. Next day, in well-ordered triumph the first of 30,000 helmeted, green-clad troops of the Communist Viet Minh rolled into the city in Russian Molotov trucks, Russian command cars and jeeps, on bicycles and afoot. Thus IndoChina's ancient capital (pop. 400,000) passed into Communist hands, in starkly simple faithfulness to the Geneva agreement which turned half of Indo-China over to Red rule...
What happened in the textile city of Namdinh (pop. 100,000), the third largest city in the north, was enough to scare even the most optimistic French businessman. As soon as the Reds arrived, everybody was ordered to turn in his nationalist piasters (value: 3? U.S.) for Ho Chi Minh piasters, got the arbitrary rate of 22 Ho Chi Minh piasters to one nationalist. Prices soared. After a short period of false prosperity, while merchants sold their stocks at wild prices, all business came to a standstill. Import taxes of 30% to 40% were levied on new goods, killing...
...Pop. In Salt Lake City, when Attorney General E. R. Callister proposed publicly that the death sentence be abolished, the first favorable letter he received was signed: "Don Jesse Neal, Death Row, Utah State Prison...