Word: redness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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General Chang planned to score a political as well as military victory. In addition to Chinese troops, he intended to take the field with 14,000 Red-trained Tibetans. And io make further propaganda, he asked the Dalai Lama, the nation's religious leader, to demonstrate his solidarity by lending his 5,000-man bodyguard to the expedition. The 23-year-old Dalai Lama, though a virtual prisoner of the Reds, politely refused...
Last week the irritated Red commander sent another message to the Dalai Lama, peremptorily ordering him to report alone, even without his senior abbots, to Red headquarters in Lhasa. As word spread among the 55,000 inhabitants of the city, angry Tibetans thronged around the towering, 40-ft. Potala (Winter Palace), so that the Dalai Lama could not leave it, even if he wished to. When the Dalai Lama's mother heard the news, she burst into tears, and a crowd of weeping women surged around the Indian consulate general, begging help for the Dalai Lama. Some Lhasans broke...
...India it was an embarrassing moment: the Indians hope to stay out of the trouble, and Prime Minister Nehru has repeatedly scoffed at exaggerated reports of Tibetan resistance. Last week the Indian consulate, lying between the Potala and Red headquarters, radioed New Delhi that there was "fighting in the immediate vicinity of the consulate. The situation is tense and rising." Then the radio fell silent. At Gyangtse, a large trading center 100 miles southwest of Lhasa, the citizens attacked the Red Chinese garrison. From Phongdo, the force of Khambas and fighting monks pushed toward the capital. At week...
...GRANNY IN TIGHTS, leered the London Daily Herald. LEGS, panted the Daily Mail. What excited Fleet Street was a novel slice of cheesecake: pert, serious Cinemactress Vivien Leigh, wife of Sir Laurence Olivier, and a grandmother at 45. Last week trim Lady Olivier slipped on a red satin bathing suit and black mesh stockings, made a slinky, twittery TV debut as Sabina, the talkative, never-say-die seductress-maid in Thornton Wilder's The Skin of Our Teeth. Critical verdict: Vivien once more proved that good legs are a ho-hum show's best means of support...
CHEN DUMPS AMERICANS WITH ONE JERK, trumpeted the headline in Hong Kong's Communist Wen Hui Pao last week. AMERICANS POWERLESS TO THREATEN CHEN CHING-KAI. Occasion for the rejoicing was a weight-lifting meet in Moscow, in which Red China's little (127 lbs.) Chen hoisted 326¼ lbs. in the clean-and-jerk to shatter the world featherweight record held by the U.S.'s Isaac Berger...