Word: southeasterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Southeast Asia Collective Defense Treaty has neither the verbal bark nor the military bite of its European counterpart, the North Atlantic Treaty. But it is the first formal alliance against Communist aggression to link Asian powers with one another and with the West...
Britain's Atomic Energy Authority told last week what it is doing with the radioactive wastes from its nuclear reactors: it dumps the worrisome stuff into the ocean 200 miles southeast of Land's End, where the continental shelf dips steeply away and the bottom of the Atlantic is 12,000 ft. down...
TEXAS TIDELANDS have produced their third well since drilling resumed last year southeast of Corpus Christi. New well brought in by Gulf Oil Corp. is at 11,540 ft. (under 48 ft. of water) about nine miles off Port Aransas in Nueces County...
Though the British government last week had its mind on Formosa, it was also keeping uneasy watch on Malaya (pop. 7,000,000), its biggest strategic and economic stake in Southeast Asia. Against fewer than 6,000 Communist guerrillas, the British are currently deploying more than 250,000 troops, home guards and police. General Sir Gerald Templer's brilliant slash-and-starve campaign of two years ago drove the demoralized Communists into jungle lairs, but the Communist victories in nearby Indo-China have produced a new, hopeful rallying cry in the Malay jungles: "Father Mao Is Coming...
Duke physicists operate the Southeast's first 4,000,000-volt Van de Graaff nuclear accelerator. Its engineers developed an infra-red drying process for the South's textile industry, and its botanists have helped lead the fight against such tobacco plant diseases as blue mold and Granville wilt. Duke scientists established a worldwide registry for fungus diseases, successfully used the rice diet for high blood pressure, worked on every type of research from new techniques in plastic surgery to a vaccine for equine encephalitis...