Word: strands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...recent major firefight occurred last September. At such strategic spots as the 14,140-ft. Natu Pass, linking the Indian protectorate of Sikkim to Chinese-held Tibet, the two sides are literally at bayonet point, patrolling within sight and sound of each other on opposite sides of a single strand of wire. Asian-style politesse prevails in the low-key propaganda war at Natu Pass. Indian loudspeakers kick off daily with news and propaganda in Mandarin Chinese at 5:30 a.m. The Chinese speakers reply in somewhat stilted classical Hindi, which most jawans do not understand, from...
...passage of time have leached away Bikini's residual radiation. Lush vegetation once more covers the island. Through their long exile, most of it on inhospitable, isolated, mosquito-plagued Kili Island, the 300 or so Bikinians have huddled in a beachfront slum, longing for their beloved strand of islets around a life-sustaining lagoon. They still cannot go home. The U.S. Defense Department wants to keep Bikini for a test site should the nuclear-testban treaty ever break down...
While pay scales are a major factor, housing's cost problem reaches far beyond wages. The $24 billion industry has been fettered for decades by myriad little, mostly local ties that bind it to old-fashioned methods and an archaic organization. Each strand of that web reinforces the others&$151;enormously inflating the price of the final product...
...animated syllabus on the making of the New England mind, and a soul-scorching look at the Calvinistic implacability of the Puritan temper. It contains the implicit suggestion that in the despoliation and murder of the Indians was born a legacy of violence that has remained a melancholy strand of American life...
Clergy & Liturgy. A second strand of hippie faith is Hindu mysticism; its followers peruse the writings of a gallery of gurus, ranging from the popular Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (TIME, Oct. 20) to Swami A. C. Bhaktivedanta of Bengal. A third source of spiritual insight is Zen Buddhism, as promulgated by Oriental Scholar Alan Watts, a one-time Anglican priest who lives on a houseboat in San Francisco...