Word: riche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ambushes & Air Raids. Since 1956 there have been repeated clashes in Tibet between Chinese garrisons and the hard-riding Khamba tribesmen, who boast that they go nowhere without their rifles, which they frequently use on everyone from rich merchants to officials from Lhasa to Communist cadres. Twenty-three years ago, when straggling parts of Mao Tse-tung's Eighth Route Army crossed Khamba territory on the famed Long March to Yenan, Khamba raiders picked off Reds by the dozens. Reportedly, Mao has never forgotten what happened-or forgiven...
...years the rich lands felt the strong influence of the Germans, first from the Knights of the Teutonic Order, later under imperial Prussia's black eagle, still later under Hitler's hooked cross. Dotted between vast estates of Junker aristocrats were thriving industrial and port cities until Allied bombs and the savage conflict between Nazi and Russian armies wiped them out, leaving half the homes and 60% of the factories gutted. Soviet plunderers took most of what was left-railroad rolling stock, machines and livestock. Under the Potsdam Agreement this barren area (the size of Virginia) went...
...estimated at 400 million tons, enough to supply Argentina for two centuries. Frondizi's government coal monopoly has signed a $42 million contract with a French company to triple last year's 250,000-ton output. And prospectors from Argentina's Atomic Energy Commission have found rich uranium deposits...
Diefenbaker's year as undisputed boss has left a large mark on Canadian affairs. His "vision of the north" moved toward reality as plans were drafted for new roads, railroads, and air routes stretching into the mineral-rich northland. He improved Canada's social welfare system, put into effect a long-planned national hospitalization scheme. He tightened Canada's Commonwealth ties by a two-month good-will tour of Commonwealth capitals...
...novel's hero is a young St. Petersburg philosophy student, Nikolai Apollonovich, who has got mixed up with a seedy revolutionary gang and has committed himself to planting a bomb. The trouble is that the target is his own father -an elderly, rich and humorless bureaucrat just below Cabinet rank and a champion of the Czarist regime. His much younger wife has left him; his son despises him, and most people fear him, actually, he is a harmless little man whose sole commitment is to the civil service. But it is 1905 and Russia has just taken a beating...