Word: southeasterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Throughout the villages and cities of Southeast Asia, millions are preparing this week for a celebration that will be a landmark in their lives - the 2,500th anniversary of the death of the Buddha, founder of a religion followed by perhaps a fifth of the world's population...
...There are 97,529 dentists in the U.S., or one for every 1,667 persons, the American Dental Association reported. Biggest trouble: the supply does not fill the right cavities. There is only one dentist for every 3,076 residents in the Southeast, one for every 2,962 in the Southwest, whereas New York...
Touchy Issue. Israel, Algeria, Formosa, Indo-China, Indonesia, Kashmir, Cyprus and the whole NATO area are serious tension points, said Stevenson. "Today in the great arc from North Africa through Southeast Asia, the Russian challenge is developing rapidly and with great flexibility and force. Everywhere, people seeking a short cut to raise their own standards of life are told that the Soviet Union alone has mastered the secret of converting a peasant economy into a modern industrial state in a single generation. In the meantime we, whose position is fundamentally decent and honorable, have so mismanaged ourselves of late that...
...Middle East, as in Southeast Asia, the U.S. hopes somehow to back its friends without at the same time driving the enemies of these friends into Khrushchev's hug. It is ticklish going. So far the U.S., which more or less thought up the Baghdad Pact, has refrained from joining it for fear of antagonizing Egypt's Nasser, who considers the pact a trick to split the Arab world away from him. Last week, without quite signing the pact, the U.S. found a diplomatic way of showing its solidarity with those Moslem lands which are ready to join...
...before, within a setting of modern business buildings. Main features: i) a paved forecourt, 100 yards wide, before St. Paul's west portal; 2) realigned streets, to provide a sweeping, unbroken expanse of lawn (and possibly a fountain) in place of St. Paul's present traffic-cluttered southeast churchyard; 3) a plan for varying the heights of surrounding buildings, among them a 23-story office building farther down Ludgate Hill, while keeping the distant view of the dome unobstructed; 4) redesign of the close-in area into a series of interconnecting courts (including a 240-car underground garage...