Word: teas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...four months starting last Dec. 31 these titans of Asia conferred in Peking. From the beginning little word leaked-out about the talks. Chou En-lai called the Indian delegates in for tea and gave them a list of instructions (e.g., you must not tell the Indian press what is going on). Red China haggled endlessly over details and often boycotted the talks without notice-particularly when India's truce-supervising General Thimayya made some decision in favor of the U.N. in Korea...
...opened the door of his neat, middle-class Frankfurt apartment to a stranger. "Are you Herr Okolovich?" asked the caller, in perfectly accented German. "I am." "Then I must talk to you privately. It is most important." Herr Okolovich ushered the stranger in and offered him a cup of tea. It was brusquely declined. A moment later, switching from German to Russian, the stranger told Herr Okolovich his na.me and business: "I am Captain Khokhlov of the MVD, and I have been ordered to kill...
...dawn we were back in Kfar Saba, sipping glasses of tea...
...some pleasanter pictures of the beings who dwell in this lost country. The Dalai Lama, aged 16 when this film was made, looks pretty much like any other teen-ager dressed up for a masquerade. The common people seem better than their betters. As they stir their hot-buttered tea or plow the skyey pastures with their dolorous yaks, or swarm to Lhasa for their pageants, their faces are warm with the comfortable joy of creatures at home in their world...
...Princess Anne, 3, rode to Portsmouth from London on an electric train. Confused because he is more expert on steam locomotives, Charles asked: "Is there a man in front?" At Portsmouth, the royal party boarded the new 413-ft. royal yacht Britannia (cost: $6,000,000). After tea, the Queen Mother and Margaret went ashore, and the Britannia set course for the Mediterranean, with the children beaming at the rail while bagpipes skirled on the pier. On May 1 the Britannia is due at the Libyan port of Tobruk. There, Prince Charlie and Princess Anne will rendezvous with their globe...