Word: southeasterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spectacular drive of the Viet Minh Communist army through Laos last week threatened to set off a chain reaction through Southeast Asia (see map). The ethnic majority in this region is Thai (pronounced tie), an ancient racial group distinct from both Chinese and Indians...
Elephants. Laos, once known as Lane Xang (the Land of a Million Elephants), is the Shangri-La of Southeast Asia. It is mistily mountainous, covered with tiger-haunted jungle and elephant-inhabited rain forest, and can only be reached by air, by traversing two very bad roads, or by sailing up the mighty Mekong. Half its people are Thais, living in the lowland valleys; the other half are primitive Khas and Meos. Huge, smiling statues of Buddha dot the landscape, and saffron-robed Buddhist monks are everywhere. Wearing scarlet jackets, gold and silver beads and bracelets and flowers in their...
...Stoltz family was up at cockcrow one morning last week, all ready to cast its votes in the first general election since 1948. Grandpa Stoltz, 75, stumped out to the car that would take his household to the polls at Nigel, a dusty gold-mining town 25 miles southeast of Johannesburg; as he reached the car there was a roar, and his house blew to smithereens. Grandma Elizabeth Stoltz and a 32-year-old gold miner named Lukas van der Merwe lay dead in the wreckage; the Stoltzes' son Pieter had a leg blown...
Happy Fishing Grounds. As usual, some of the best waters for big bass should be the lakes of the Southeast, especially Alabama and Georgia. But bass bugs will also be bobbing happily in two huge, new man-made lakes, where careful conservation and fine feed-beds produce topflight fishing; Arizona-Nevada's Lake Mead and the Dale Hollow Reservoir shared by Kentucky and Tennessee. Wisconsin and Minnesota fishermen, with nearly 20,000 lakes to choose from, are itching for more battles with the monster muskies (record catch...
...goodly share of the uneducated came from the Southeast, partly because of discrimination against Negroes. During the war, two out of ten Southern Negroes were rejected for "educational deficiency," compared to only one Northern or Western white...