Word: posts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...desert, not far from where Jordanians had ambushed a busload of Israelis last month. Next night a powerful Israeli army force-some 1,000 troops according to Jordan sources-slammed twelve miles across the desert frontier into Jordan and, supported by artillery and bombing planes, wiped out a police post at Gharandal, almost midway between the Dead Sea and the Red Sea. Jordan reported ten police, National Guardsmen and civilians killed, eight wounded...
...become Chief Minister of Bengal, one of the biggest jobs in British India. With India's independence and its partition into Hindu and Moslem nations. Moslem Suhrawardy, instead of going to Moslem Pakistan, toured Bengal with Mahatma Gandhi and tried to put an end to the bloody post-partition riots between Hindus and Moslems. (This, however, failed to endear him to Hindus, who charge that he had helped to provoke the Bengal riots in the first place...
...York Philharmonic-Symphony . Society, with the deciding voice in the selection of conductors and soloists. For most of his 34-year tenure, controversy flickered over whether Judson should properly carry on both jobs. Last week the controversy came to an end when Judson, 75, resigned his post with the New York Philharmonic. Judson's resignation pointed up the fact that the oldest orchestra in the U.S. had fallen on evil days...
...Post Office also took an interest, denied the magazine second-class mail privileges, charging obscenity. But a federal district court overruled the Post Office last November. Said Playboy's editor-owner, 3O-year-old Hugh M. Hefner incredulously: "Some people think nudity is pornographic...
Britain's reigning crime sensation, touted by Picture Post as "Scotland Yard's biggest investigation of the century," has been making headlines for a month: YARD PROBES DEATHS OF 300 RICH WOMEN; YARD PROBES MASS POISONING. Papers reported plans to exhume bodies, test cemetery soil, investigate wills and drug sales. But despite a spate of stories about the Case of the Eastbourne Deaths, many a reader stumbled bewildered through such a maze of hints, irrelevancies and non sequiturs that it was hard to figure out what the uproar was all about. Reason: the tough British laws of libel...