Word: primed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With a press of a button, the wife of the U.S. ambassador started the fountains going, and one by one, led by Prime Minister Nehru and his daughter Indira, the distinguished guests made their way by the dancing water. They mounted the great marble steps, crossed the terrace paved with smooth white pebbles from the banks of the Ganges, passed beyond a series of slender golden columns, and disappeared behind the great golden-studded white screen. Then came the inspection of the air-conditioned offices with their doors of teak, the elaborate servants' quarters, the great aluminum shade through...
...came Indian troops, and a dewan or Prime Minister furnished by India. When the Reds seized neighboring Tibet, India made Sikkim a protectorate, posted troops on the Tibetan border to prevent the smuggling of Communist propaganda in mule trains, required all visitors to Sikkim to give two weeks' notice before getting clearance to enter the country...
...underdevelopment was one of its biggest assets. Even giant projects get lost in the huge U.S. economy. In Canada's relatively small economy, the sheer momentum of big basic projects (TransCanada gas pipeline, St. Lawrence Seaway) kept payrolls and profits at near-record levels. Unlike the U.S. Government, Prime Minister John Diefenbaker's Tory government found it feasible to finance antirecession measures. Tax cuts and increased social-welfare payments encouraged consumers to buy at record rates. A $350 million government mortgage-loan program pushed housing to an alltime peak (160,000 starts) and touched off subsidiary booms...
Marriage Revealed. Mitsue Tojo, 40, who has lived in seclusion since her father, Japan's World War II Prime Minister Hideki Tojo, was hanged as a war criminal in 1948; and General Shigeru Sugiyama, 56, chief of staff of Japan's Defense Agency; she for the first time, he for the second...
Died. Eva Gauthier, 73, concert mezzo-soprano, niece of Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Canada's first French-Canadian Prime Minister; in Manhattan...