Word: primed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Warrior. Germany's oaken Chancellor Konrad Adenauer had come "to accompany my old friend on his final journey." Australia's Prime Minister Robert G. Menzies was there, and Madame Chiang Kaishek, U.N.'s Dag Hammarskjold, NATO's Secretary-General Paul Henri Spaak, 14 foreign ministers, envoys from all of Washington's 83 foreign missions. From Tokyo, Japan's Foreign Minister Aiichiro Fujiyama had made a hurried flight halfway around the world to pay his last respects to the architect of the Japanese peace treaty. From Geneva, the Big Four foreign ministers-Christian Herter, Selwyn...
...when India and Pakistan separated amid bloodshed that was exceeded in the 20th century only by the two World Wars, a border line was drawn through the Indus valley, and the water squabble began. Prime Minister Nehru protested that Pakistan demanded practically all the canal flow, while vast areas of India were "simply thirsting and panting for water." Pakistan cried that India's huge irrigation and water-development schemes would turn millions of Pakistani acres into a dust bowl. When India abruptly cut off the waters of one canal system for a month, a Pakistani leader threatened invasion, shouted...
Though it has never been enforced, Article 90 of Cuba's constitution says that "large landholdings are proscribed," and "the acquisition and possession of land by foreign persons and companies shall be restrictively limited." Last week Prime Minister Fidel Castro enforced Article 90 with a vengeance. His agrarian-reform decree, signed in the six-hut eastern village of La Plata, scene of one of the first guerrilla attacks in Castro's revolution, outlawed the $300 million U.S. investment in Cuban sugar...
...military air power (TIME, March 2)-some members of the Conservative government want to cut back Canada's contribution to NATO. Last week NATO's General Lauris Norstad spent 2¼ hours before Canada's Cabinet in worried entreaty for renewed support. But Tory Prime Minister John Diefenbaker gave no sign that Ottawa is willing...
...daughter, Nancy Oakes de Marigny, after Sir Harry was found-dead, bludgeoned and fire-scorched in bed -by his lone house guest, Bay Street Real Estate Tycoon Harold Christie, now 62. The private eye showed that preliminary investigation of the murder was botched, helped get an acquittal for the prime suspect, Nancy's husband. Count Marie Alfred de Fouquereaux de Marigny. When De Marigny was expelled from the islands after his acquittal, Nancy had the marriage annulled, tried marriage a second unsuccessful time, has been seen around London lately with Prince Philip's former private secretary, Lieut. Commander...