Word: towns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...religious leader, the young Dalai Lama, and 13,000 Tibetan refugees came pouring across India's border, Nehru seemed acutely uncomfortable. To Red China's hysterical charges that Indian "expansionists" were behind the revolt and that the "command center" of the rebels was in the Indian border town of Kalimpong, Nehru entered a soft denial, and said Kalimpong was indeed a nest of spies-"spies who are Communist, antiCommunist, red, yellow, pink and white." To urgent suggestions that India join with Pakistan for the united defense of the subcontinent, Nehru asked ingenuously: "Against whom...
Five miles above the quiet Riviera town of Fréjus (see map), French engineers five years ago built Malpasset Dam. A graceful, sweeping arc of concrete 738 ft. long and 197 ft. high, it backed the Reyran River into a lake six miles long and two miles wide. Only 22½ ft. thick at its base and 5 ft. at the top, the Malpasset was, French technicians boasted on its completion, the world's thinnest major dam. It was to prove an unhappy boast...
...idea for the Christmas party three months ago, and it took him only a day or two to persuade his European and African prison mates to go along. Then he convinced the warden. Using an empty cell as an office, the prisoners wrote to stores and charities in town explaining that they wanted to invite as many of Salisbury's European orphans and needy children as possible: ''We would like to be their parents for one day." Soon, the gifts began to arrive, and the prisoners, snatching every free moment from compulsory chores and sometimes staying...
...story of Hungary three years later is still that of puppet rulers holding power only by the presence of 60,000 Russian troops. The Soviet troops are not deployed as a field force against international danger, but scattered in "penny packets" outside each Hungarian town to guard against uprising...
...Progress (by Lonnie Coleman) concerns a wild, scared, quick-witted young Alabama Negro housemaid who, having been seduced by her employer and sent packing by his wife, finds sanctuary with an enlightened writer. While the writer is playing Professor Higgins to the girl's Liza, the town assumes he is playing Don Juan. Preachers rail, hooded figures threaten, before a ladylike Jolly goes North for further schooling. Beyond some vivid touches by Eartha Kitt, the play has small merit. It is so gagged up with breezy situations, crude stereotypes and comic characters that the racial angle, which might have...