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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Arab guerrillas who ambushed and killed two British soldiers were reported to be in the village of Danaba (pop. 120), a border hamlet of mud and stone huts. Danaba was warned by leaflet that it would be bombed. Promised the R.A.F. officer commanding the operation: "The fearsome sight will frighten the Arabs . . . a terrific explosion will echo up the hills. The tribesmen will be somewhere watching the show...
This development put a damper on the hopes of some delegates who earlier had professed belief a solution was in sight...
...hounds became a royal canine family. They were smart enough to herd sheep, swift enough to run down deer, sturdy enough to tangle with leopards. Their broad, high-set hips lent unusual agility to their natural speed. They have been called "gaze hounds" because they spotted their prey by sight, not scent. British officers back from Asian duty told tales of untrained Afghan hounds serving as sentries at frontier forts...
Almost lost to sight in the worldwide building boom of new factories, apartment houses and skyscrapers are the new concert halls and opera houses going up to keep pace with the ever-growing music audience. In the U.S., Architects Wallace Harrison and Max Abramovitz are at work on plans for a new home for the Metropolitan Opera Co. in Manhattan's Lincoln Square development. A $2,000,000 opera house has been projected for Colorado Springs by Architect Jan Ruhtenberg which features sculptural shell concrete forms with adjustable walls that can be thrown wide open to empty a full...
AIRLINE SUBSIDY END is in sight for domestic trunk lines for the first time in U.S. commercial aviation history. Last big subsidized line, Northeast Airlines, has been requested by the CAB to show cause why its $1,800,000 annual subsidy should not be stopped forthwith...