Word: swifts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...redolent, mud-walled courtyards of Samarkand (pop. 170,000), short, moonfaced Uzbeks with golden skin and embroidered skullcaps no longer call the Russians hated koperlar (infidels). The commissars have done their work well. This summer hundreds of tourists, many of them Americans, flying southeast from Moscow in swift TU-IO4 jets that make the 2,500-mile trip to Tashkent in four hours, have been rewarded with satisfying peeks at these ancient cities, set like "green jewels on a withered hand," in a harsh and little-known land (see color pages...
...Paris by swift truck and chartered plane go 65,000 copies daily-80,000 when the tourists swarm. In the last five years as tourism has grown, the Trib has boosted subscriptions 90% and newsstand sales 34%, is so much a European fixture that it appears regularly behind the Iron Curtain, on Polish and Yugoslavian kiosks. It charges almost the same ad rates as Paris' Le Figaro (circ. 475,000), yet steamship companies and resorts are eager to do business with the Trib...
...Kansas City's Roger Maris, 24. a grim, solid (6 ft., 197 Ibs.) rightfielder, has trailed off recently in his hitting from a league-leading .344 to .292, but Acting Manager Bob Swift insists, "He's going to be one of the great ballplayers." Close friends lay Maris' poker-faced concentration to a desire to make good for his brother Rudy, whose career as a player back home in Fargo, N. Dak. was stopped by polio in 1951. With speed on the base paths and wall-climbing tenacity in the outfield to back up his hitting, Maris...
...stranger and he the highest citizen, yet I shall remain and he shall depart." In 1492 Lorenzo was dead. Echoing in the ears of the impressed Florentines was the preacher's reiterated warning: "Ecce gladius Domini super terram, cito et velociter [Behold the sword of the Lord, swift and sure, over the earth...
Reaction in the Central African Federation was swift and predictable. Africans celebrated by drinking maize beer around log fires, began agitation for Dr. Banda's release from prison. But the Federation government showed no disposition to free either Dr. Banda or some 500 "hard core" followers, and began taking precautions against another African upheaval in Nyasaland. Ammunition stockpiles were checked. Special constables were alerted in Blantyre-Limbe and other Nyasaland towns, and two mobile platoons of the Northern Rhodesian Police were moved to the Nyasaland border...