Word: southeasterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Operations Chief to Supreme Allied Commander Southeast Asia, to Viceroy. He might then have had a political career. But there was one post he really coveted. His father, German Prince Louis of Battenberg (the family name, before it was Anglicized to Mountbatten), was forced out in 1914 as Britain's First Sea Lord because of his German origin. One day in 1955 Dickie Mountbatten sat down proudly in his father's old chair at the Admiralty...
Centered in Bombay, Indian moviemaking is a montage of pomp, profit and speculation. The size of the market is fantastic : 730 million annual Indian moviegoers, plus Southeast Asia, the Middle East and many countries behind the Iron Curtain. But Bombay also has trouble: a severe star shortage. For all of Bombay's 20 studios, which make some 300 pictures yearly (in 19 Indian languages), there are only twelve top stars. They work in as many as 15 movies simultaneously, dashing from studio to studio in limousines, and often a hero and heroine do their parts in so many scattered...
WEST GERMAN COMPETITION with U.S. and British firms is growing stiffer in underdeveloped areas. West Germany's latest prize: a $14 million contract to engineer biggest hydroelectric power project in Southeast Asia, a 200,000-kw. job in Malaya's Cameron Highlands...
...Santa Ana Freeway, held him at bay with his own pistol until a state highway patrolman appeared. To police, the pint-sized ex-convict glibly announced he had strangled three other women, led police to the decomposed bodies of two of them on a sun-bleached strip of desert southeast of Los Angeles. He volunteered the 22 pictures, explained proudly how he settled on fine-grain Panatomic-X film for black-and-whites, processed the Anscochrome color transparencies himself...
...supersonic delta-wing B58 Hustler, loping along at 650 m.p.h. 32,000 ft. over Texas, began a sharp turn to the southeast. Suddenly the four-jet bomber strained, trembled. "The first thing I noticed," said Captain Daniel Holland, the defensive-systems operator, "was that we were pulling Gs. which indicated to me that we were achieving an unusual attitude . . . I called Smitty [Major Richard Smith, 40, the pilot] and said: 'What's the matter? What's going on?' The answer wasn't immediate, so I figured he was fighting the controls. Next thing I knew...