Word: regional
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...serious trouble-promised that the communization of Tibet would be delayed at least six years. Many Chinese Red civilians were sent home. But still the Khamba insurrection flourished. Encampments of the tribesmen began to dot the wide plain around Lhasa. They consolidated their hold on the barren, treeless region that runs along the borders of India, Bhutan and Sikkim. The nervous Chinese Reds countered by erecting watchtowers along the Lhasa road, sandbagged strategic positions around the city...
...weavers, wood carvers and farmers were erudite enough to flavor their conversation with at least a few words of English-spoken with recognizable Tennessee drawls. And the strange rhythms of U.S. natives, as recorded in the waxings of Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington, are now familiar in a region where no American had ever lived until Hamlett came there six months...
...another of his anti-Communist speeches broadcast from Damascus, capital of the Syrian region of the U.A.R., Nasser today recalled a series of Syrian-Israel border clashes...
Nineteen years ago, two boys out hunting in the Dordogne region of France chased a rabbit into a hole. Enlarging the hole, the boys lowered themselves into a vast cave that had been sealed away for untold thousands of years. The cave's limestone floor proved disappointingly bare of treasures-which is what boys naturally expect to find in caves-but the walls, in the eye of their flashlight, swarmed with strange painted beasts. Some 20,000 years old, the pictures were almost perfectly preserved. They had found mankind's oldest shrine, painted by Cro-Magnon...
FREIGHT-CAR SHORTAGE is expected because "bad order ratio" (number of cars out of service because of a need for repairs), has risen above safe level of 5% to 8.6% national average. In some areas, such as the Allegheny region (which includes the Pennsylvania and B. & O. roads), the average...