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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Entire rows of cedar trees were blasted away. Quemoy City, scarcely scathed when I left, bared its broken windows. Fewer civilians, more soldiers padded through the streets, and the cheerful horde of children was gone. Parents keep the kids indoors, and civilians, who once seemed amused at the sight of long-nosed foreigners, now pass quickly and silently. Since Aug. 23, Red shells have killed 65 civilians on Quemoy, wounded at least 200 others. Military casualties exceed...
That night Chehab's army cracked down as it never had when Chehab was merely army chief, charged with upholding the authority of the Chamoun government. Troops were ordered to shoot armed civilians on sight. Army patrols shot and killed two men who pulled guns to stop a car in the Moslem quarter. Phalange Chief Pierre Gemayel hastily announced he was all for peace...
...Exposition city has its own transportation system, since no private vehicles larger than baby carriages are permitted. Open buses and small motorized carriages constitute the ground transport. Cable cars carry tourists above the Fair. And the Expo has its own "heliport" for aerial sight-seeing and heliocopter service to Amsterdam, Paris and other European cities...
International organizations and private industries also had exhibit halls. The Phillips Electric Company's exhibit of a symphonic poem in sight and sound, which many visitors passed up, portrayed current tensions better than anything else at the Exposition. As spectators gasped, pictures of apes, war, art, men, flashed on the walls in rapid succession, while sounds of music, air-raid sirens, and planes produced a swelling cacophony. It was a tribute to the marvels of electricity, a terrifying artistic expression of uncertainty...
...there is much more to the Summer School than the nightly collection of hungry males ogling the windows of female - filled Wiggles-worth, the sight of a bare nail-polished foot extended upon a chair during a final exam, and the overly friendly girls who ask a young man whether he "would tutor me in this course because I just have no idea of what's going on." This summer saw an unusually large number of renowned professors among the School's faculty: Allen Tate, C. Northcote Parkinson, Angus Taylor, Harold Schmidt, and many others. On a poll distributed...