Word: vias
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...engineers are busy paving dusty streets, repairing broken-down harbor jetties, and surveying the ancient towns of Khan Yunis, Rafa and Deir el Balah for their first municipal water, electricity and drainage systems. Trains are hauling in supplies from Tel Aviv 40 miles away; mail is arriving marked "Gaza via Israel." Work is expected to start soon on bringing water from the Yarkon-Negev pipeline to irrigate the first 2,500 acres of citrus-growing land in the Deir el Balah sector. In nearly every village, Israeli experts are handing out new strains of grain, instructing farmers...
Inevitably, the purposeful young (32) diplomat came under Gestapo surveillance. Just before the Russians entered Budapest in January 1945, he went underground. When the Russians arrived, he made contact with Marshal Malinovsky, Red Army commander on the Hungarian front, who advised Stockholm, via Moscow: ". . . Diplomat Raoul Wallenberg well taken care of by army authorities...
Visit to a Small Planet (by Gore Vidal) attracted considerable attention as a satirical TV yarn about a man from a distant and civilized planet who. via flying saucer, visits his "hobby," the Earth. It later aroused considerable speculation as to how, without being sadly watered down, a good saucerful of TV fun could fill a regulation soup bowl of a play. The problem has been solved, on the whole quite happily, by not turning Visit to a Small Planet into a play. It has been turned, instead, into a kind of vaudeville show, with two expert comedians, Cyril Ritchard...
South Dakota's Republican Senator Francis Case took the floor last February to announce to his colleagues that an attempt had been made via a $2,500 "campaign contribution" to influence his vote on the natural-gas bill, aimed at freeing gas producers of federal supervision. In the ensuing explosion, both the Democratic and Republican leaders clucked politely, then hurriedly pushed the bill through, promising to investigate later. President Eisenhower, objecting to the "arrogant" and "highly questionable activities" of gas-bill lobbyists, vetoed the bill (which he favored in principle...
NORTH POLE FLIGHTS from Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle to Europe probably will be started before summer by Pan American World Airways and Trans World Airlines. CAB examiner urged that the two U.S. airlines be certified to fly via Pole from West Coast, thus cut flight time to Europe by five to 15 hours. Scandinavian Airlines System now holds monopoly on route...