Word: southeasterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Jawaharlal Nehru stood upright in his open black Cadillac as it rolled beneath triumphal arches through the villages and towns of southeast India. "WELCOME, JEWEL OF ASIA," the customary placards proclaimed as he journeyed, garlanded, along paths strewn with palm leaves. Yet despite the familiar scenes of adulation, he seemed distant, tired, and ineffectual. Speaking from a platform 15 feet above the crowds of illiterate peasants, he projected his own confusion. He is against "the Communists," but not against "Communism." He does not approve of Communist "methods," but as for Communist objectives, "I like them." "Does Nehru Sahib wish...
...stop the spread of slums, Kimpton helped found a special Southeast Chicago Commission. The commission hired its own lawyer, law-enforcement officer, building inspector. It helped to drive cheating landlords out of the area, sparked a whole series of neighborhood redevelopment corporations. Kimpton himself called on Mayor Kennelly and President Eisenhower, helped persuade the city, state and Federal Government to back a $30 million slum-clearance program. Among the new buildings now going up in the vicinity: a row of houses and a bustling shopping center, as well as the already constructed new headquarters for the American Bar Association...
...there is plenty of serious business ahead for the Congress. The Senate has coming up before it treaties on German rearmament, Southeast Asian defense, and mutual defense with the Chinese Nationalists. Farm, power, military, labor, housing and foreign-aid policies will all come up for review-and each promises a fight. In the first hours of the Senate session, 166 measures were introduced, ranging from John Bricker's treaty amendment to a bill by Arizona's Republican Senator Barry Goldwater which would permit live scorpions to be sent through the mail for medical research...
...hospital architect, administrator or doctor has ever suggested to promote efficiency and comfort. The difference begins at the doors. Patients enter the building (shaped like a letter T, but with an added crossbar like an F) from the west, doctors and nurses from the south, administrative personnel from the southeast, research workers from the east, students from the north. In the wings housing the hospital's 310 beds, vertical and horizontal flow have been skillfully coordinated not only for the most efficient treatment but also to promote research and teaching. For example, a patient admitted for chemical cancer treatment...
...Australians were excited anew about the "Yellow Peril." Into Rabaul Harbor came a Japanese pearling ship, its crew battened below decks, its captain a captive of Australian Planter Ray Stacey, who, with the aid of native islanders, had seized the vessel at the Feni Islands, 80 miles to the southeast. Australia accused the Japanese of violating immigration laws, but the real charge was poaching pearl shell beds in waters which the Australians insist they own-a claim which Japan disputes...