Word: redness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Although Red China law strictly forbids the export of antiques, the Communist government itself conducts a thriving, surreptitious trade in ancient objets d'art. It does so through an organization called the Peking Arts and Crafts Co., which commands high prices for bronzes and porcelain slipped out to selected dealers in Hong Kong and Europe. Included last week in the latest selection of mainland art wares showing up in Hong Kong shops was a sizable portion of loot from Tibet. For $50 and up, customers could choose from dozens of gilded bronze temple statues of Buddha, silver Tibetan chalices...
...Stockholm a much more impressive haul from China sat in a customs shed. It was a treasure hoard picked up in Peking by Nils Nessim, 43, a Swedish carpet dealer and importer. On a previous trip to Red China last year he had bought only modern carpets, ivory and porcelain. This time, taken down winding Peking streets to out-of-the-way antique shops, Nessim said he had stumbled onto a marvelous bronze figure of a six-armed, three-faced god crowned with a headdress of flames, excitedly asked if he might buy it. Told that he might, Nessim realized...
Manila announced that Tibet's Dalai Lama, in Indian haven after escaping the Red Chinese invaders of his land, had won this year's Ramon Magsaysay Award for community leadership, a salute for the god-king's role in Tibet's "gallant struggle...
Meanwhile, Wood and his firemen went into the basement tank room, tried to stop the leak with a new flange. When the air cylinders for their masks were empty and they came up to the street to change them, their faces and necks showed bright red acid burns; 38 were affected, one had to be hospitalized. Because aqua regia attacks pipes and pumps so avidly, it took three days to find resistant equipment to load it into a tank truck for neutralization and disposal in New Jersey...
They will need it, for Milwaukee's Braves are far from dead. After five players had failed to fill the hole left at second by Red Schoendienst, out with tuberculosis, Manager Fred Haney is finally getting some help from Bobby Avila, 33, the old Cleveland Indian, who knows what to do with the ball, even though he cannot go far to get it. Schoendienst may be back by September, but in the meantime Haney can more than make do with the men who won for him in 1957 and 1958: husky Third Baseman Ed Mathews is still hitting home...