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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dutch military forces struck at Indonesia in what they termed "police action" yesterday, but insurgent Republican officials described the situation as a "full scale colonial war." Republican President Soekarno's forces were ordered to "counter-attack" wherever they were attacked...
Republican officials accused the Dutch of starting a full scale "colonial war." Indonesian troops were ordered to "counter-attack" wherever they were attacked...
...this season found more than even last year's record enrollment crowding school facilities for the first-of-July opening. With a solid week of student concerts already under its belt, the huge outdoor shed echoing to the myriad noises of tuning musicians, and the full-scale Berkshire Festival due to get underway, the Orchestra management announced last week final plans for the season...
...Canada's 3,695,000 square miles, only 5% have ever been mapped in detail on an inch-per-mile scale. There are still enormous areas in the north and west where rivers, lakes and topographical contours are uncharted, or marked only by dotted lines-the cartographer's indication of uncertainty...
...itself, none of these inconveniences makes a normal passenger airsick-but it helps. The chief cause of airsickness is the plane's up-&-down motion in bumpy air (not its rolling or yawing). A large-scale Army study during the war indicated that at least a fourth of all passengers are susceptible to airsickness. Most of them become more or less immune once they get used to flying, and airlines would do well to help them become immune by making it harder to get sick. An estimated one-tenth, whom Dr. McFarland classifies as "usually neurotic or emotionally predisposed...