Word: terrains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...photography, though, is remarkably good. The rough terrain over which the Thomas' lugged their equipment is attractive, even for a travelogue. The Thomas' also have assiduously gone around to all the local religious festivals. The result is excerpts from religious dances that run ten hours a day for two weeks, as well as shots of Buddhist pilgrims who spend up to thirty days continually prostrating themselves before Lhasa's temples. Many of their subjects, like the Dalai Lama, had never been photographed before, and may never never again, as the Communists have just topped off their invasion with a Peking...
Decisive Moment. "We will walk back into Burma," said Merrill firmly, as his men left India in February 1944. For the next four months, supplied by airdrops and using only mules and their own feet for transport, they slogged 500 miles across the most nightmarish terrain on earth, fought five major engagements and 30 minor ones against the crack Japanese 18th Division, whose commanders were convinced that the regimental-strength Marauders totaled two full divisions...
...pushed by the British ever since their evacuation of Suez, the main Middle East defense line would be established along the rugged Zagros mountain range which runs from eastern Turkey southeastward along the north shore of the Persian Gulf. This line, the British argue, is "the only reasonably defensible terrain," can be supplied readily from Iraq, and they figure they could fly in an armored division from Libya, Jordan or Cyprus in less than three weeks after a Russian attack was launched...
...bluest chip stocks. Vermeer's Portrait of a Young Girl, recently on loan to Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum, cost $350,000; judged as real estate, it is worth $1,252 per sq. in. (v. $2.10 per sq. in. for the House of Morgan's Wall Street terrain). A Cezanne that could be bought for about $100 when it was first shown in 1895 today fetches around $113,000. Notes FORTUNE: "General Motors has done a little better than Cezanne, but not so well as Renoir; $100 invested in G.M. stock in 1909 would be worth a total...
...chairmanship of the new united party for their leader, Mosaburo Suzuki, a onetime ricksha boy, a poet who writes under the name of Mojin (growing person), a pacifist who did 2½ years' time in imperial jails during World War II, a longtime inhabitant of the marshy Marxist terrain between Socialism and Communism. For their part, the right-wingers installed as party secretary general their boss, Inejiro Asanuma, a big-chested, big-voiced union man who has a background of antiCommunism. He is a stronger, more forceful type than Party Chairman Suzuki. The reunited party's line: preservation...