Word: southeasterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Each of the Observatory's Moonwatch teams has about 14 members, who have been oriented to watch for a satellite coming from the northeast or southeast horizons...
...walking circles around us." In Iran practically all buses running are now Mercedes-Benzes. Two of Baghdad's proud new bridges are German-built, as is the new one across the Nile at Cairo. The products of Bayer's giant Leverkusen works now fill the drugstores of Southeast Asia. Three years after the French gave up Indo-China, half the cars in Laos are German-made; in an auto race in the Belgian Congo, Volkswagen took the first eight places. The heavy-machinery firm DEMAG has built the first steel works in Egypt, Korea, Burma and the Philippines...
Both Greece and Turkey were admitted to NATO in 1951 in recognition of their growing military strength and importance to Western defense. At NATO's headquarters for "Southeast Land Europe" in Izmir, command functions are today divided equally between Greek, Turkish, and U.S. officers. These NATO commanders, in their multi-uniforms, frankly admit that "this alliance has little hope of accomplishing anything beyond deterrance and defense. Ultimate control over the Straits," they say, "will be crucial for naval and land operations in any future war, and it will take the Russians at least 50 or 60 divisions to break through...
...Across Southeast Asia, thousands of overseas Chinese displayed new loyalty to the red, white and blue banner of the republic. In refugee-swamped Macao, they staged the biggest demonstration since the Reds seized China. In sensitive Hong Kong, far more Chinese showed Nationalist colors on Double Tenth than had displayed the Red flag on the Oct. 1 anniversary of the Communist victory. In neutralist Cambodia, more Chinese shut their shops on the Nationalists' holiday than on the Communists'. Editorialized the New York Times hopefully: "The concept of freedom cannot be killed by Communist maneuver. The new and great...
...last week named its first ambassador to the new Southeast Asian nation of Malaya. Appointed by President Eisenhower: Career Diplomat Homer Morrison Byington Jr., 49, born of U.S. parents at Naples, Italy, educated at Phillips Academy and Yale ('30), veteran of foreign service in Cuba, Yugoslavia, Italy (ten years) and Spain, credited by old foreign service hands as having "the smoothness with which machinery rolls." Last job: minister of the U.S. mission in Madrid...