Word: turning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...concentrated heavy-industry city in Deep South, steel mills, iron foundries, etc., set up 1871 in midst of Jones Valley iron ore, coal, limestone; now centers around Tennessee Coal & Iron Division of U.S. Steel Corp. with 25,000 employees, also diversifies into 720 firms, e.g., Hayes Aircraft Corp., which turn out 3,250 products. Ample cheap labor force: rural white in-migrants, Negroes. Negro population: 38.9%, with rising living standards, though only 21.1% of Negro families make upwards of $4,000 a year against 77.2% of whites. Tourist attraction: Vulcan, 55-ft. monument on top of 120-ft. pedestal...
...already, through the highceilinged, 48-year-old Our Lady of the Angels grammar school in West Side Chicago, many of the 1,200 youngsters were beginning to turn away from books, fidget in their seats, wonder if the 3 p.m. dismissal bell would ever ring. In fifth-grade geography on the second floor, the teacher thought that the room was getting too warm. Said she: 'Why don't some of you boys open the windows?" In fourth-grade arithmetic, a boy blurted: "Sister, I smell smoke." Smoke began to seep under classroom doors, through open transoms. A fire...
...then, did Khrushchev turn the international spotlight on "the German question"? Western experts no longer believe that he was merely probing for weak spots in the Western alliance. Moscow is well aware that an increasing number of West German politicians, expecially the Socialists, regard Konrad Adenauer's stern insistence on reunification, with no strings attached, as dead-end diplomacy. They are flirting restlessly with the notion that if the West agreed to discuss German demilitarization first, it might be able to lure Moscow into serious talks about reunification...
...turbulent present caught up with the age-old ways of the Batonga. In Salisbury, the decision was made to build a dam across the Kariba gorge to get the power needed for heavy industry and the copper mines. The dam would turn the Gwembe Valley into the world's largest man-made lake, storing 130 million acre-ft. of water-more than the combined capacity of the Shasta, Hoover and Grand Coulee dams in the American West. Soon the Kariba gorge, which had been inhabited only by crocodiles, hippos and an occasional Batonga hunter, echoed to the roar...
Many of the eager young politicians of the ruling Istiqlal (Independence) Party view the King (and onetime Sultan) as an old-fashioned survival. Fighting tribesmen in the Rif mountains, in turn, view the Istiqlal with suspicion as "Frenchified city slickers." Inside the Istiqlal itself, a vocal left-of-center minority demands a neutralist foreign policy and denounces "palace politics...