Word: sightly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...started by enraged refugees, who stormed the government refugee offices where the Nationalist flags were removed. They smashed everything in sight and fired the building. Then, clotting into crowds and then into mobs, they fanned out to other parts of the colony. Club-swinging police dispersed some, but by dusk the rioters had gathered again, in greater strength. Stones and water fell down from rooftops onto the heads of police reinforcements. Their night sticks and tear gas could not still the rioters...
...chartered bus sped from Jackson along the historic Natchez Trace, some of the editors were surprised to find no segregation in places of business. Editor J. Clark Samuel of Massachusetts' Foxboro Reporter was struck by "fine colored schools" and the sight of Negroes and whites "living in compatibility." Publisher John C. Bond of Massachusetts' Rockland Standard noted "a real effort to lift the level of the Negro educationally...
...most of its 800 employees counted it drowned. Bravely, the paper's three court-appointed trustees announced that they were still negotiating with prospective buyers and hoped to get the paper sold. But in ordering a shutdown "until further notice," they admitted that no deal was in sight to justify carrying the paper's weekly operating loss. Boston's other dailies began pitching energetically for the Post's 255,000 daily circulation and its Sunday circulation...
Carnival Atmosphere. But the biggest lure of the new supercenters is what Maryland's James Rouse, No. 1 shopping-center financial consultant, promoter and part-owner of Mondawmin, calls their "personal, informal, carnival atmosphere." Frequently screened from the sight, sound and smell of traffic, their malls and walkways are bright with flowers, fountains, tropical birds. At Southdale the 82-acre shopping zone is insulated from suburban Minneapolis by a 240-acre office belt and a 176-acre lakefront residential section. Like Detroit's fabulously successful Northland center (first-year gross: $88 million), a number of the new projects...
...intellectual landscape created by French Novelist Boulle, the most interesting sight is a special stream of Gallic irony. His heroes drown in it before the reader's eyes, but even as they go down it is obvious that they all know how to swim. In The Bridge Over the River Kwai it was a British colonel whose fight for honor gave aid and comfort to the Japanese. In Not the Glory, it was a German spy whose best efforts aided the British. In his new novel, laid in a sleepy Provencal town among ordinary people...