Word: southeasterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years since the signing of the North Atlantic Pact, the world's free nations have forged a chain of defense alliances which extended eastward from the Bering Sea, across North America and Europe to Turkey, then resumed again in Southeast Asia. But in the Middle East, the chain fell short of ringing the globe...
...First, Student James Mellaart reconnoitered southwestern Anatolia, looking for mounds, stones and bits of pottery. Some of the potsherds could be fitted together into graceful drinking vessels like champagne glasses. They led Mellaart, like bits of paper in a paper chase, to the centers of the long-forgotten culture, southeast of Istanbul...
After he became TIME'S Southeast Asia correspondent in 1950, Dowling commuted between his Singapore base and the wars in Malaya and Indo-China. His painstaking dispatches for TIME'S cover stories on France's GENERAL JEAN DE LATTRE DE TASSIGNY (Sept. 24, 1951) and GENERAL SIR GERALD TEMPLER of Malaya (Dec. 15, 1952) were models of thoughtful reporting...
...Singapore, bastion of British strength in Southeast Asia, the Communists at last felt strong enough to attack in the open. For months they had worked to infiltrate the local Chinese, who make up 80% of the city's 1,200,000 population. They wormed their way into control of unions, and organized a handy riot squad of 3,000 students (whose schools, say wags, now teach "reading, rioting and 'rithmetic"). To pay their way, they shook down wealthy Chinese merchants, those shrewd barometers of "who's ahead," who have become convinced that Red Peking...
...outside the mines as production outsped the expansion of uranium refineries. One of the biggest stacks of ore lies outside the rich ($60 million in proved reserves) Mi Vida mine of Charles Steen, the onetime oil geologist who discovered Mi Vida when he was almost penniless, thereby touched off southeast Utah's first big uranium strike (TIME...