Word: west
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cool Heels. Banda's guile is equally evident in his dealings with East and West. After a flurry of deals last year with the Soviet-bloc nations he is now slipping from their deadly embrace. A Red Chinese delegation has cooled its heels for a month in Colombo trying to arrange a new rice-for-rubber barter, after the other one worked out badly. Of 16 ambitious projects to be set up with Soviet Russian aid, only one-a sugar factory-is beyond the planning stage. Banda's smiles are currently lavished on the U.S. aid missions, which...
...general, attached to the Brazilian embassy in Washington. This week, ten years later, he returns as the tough, seasoned boss of the Brazilian armed forces, and democracy's strong right arm in Brazil. As he goes off for three weeks of sightseeing, mostly military, from Cape Canaveral to West Point to Fort Ord in California, the U.S. will get acquainted with the man who will play a key role-either as candidate or moderator-in Brazil's presidential election next year...
Black topsoil, rolling 350 miles west and south of Buenos Aires, has nourished Argentina's agricultural past; but for its heavy-industrial future, Argentina is looking toward continent's-end Patagonia. Outwardly, Patagonia seems little more than 300,000 sq. mi. of wasteland lashed by 60-m.p.h. antarctic winds, blinded by spinning dust devils, cursed by endless drought that is relieved by only 5 in. of rain a year. Its 500,000 inhabitants earn a rugged living by running 18 million sheep and 1,500,000 goats on scrub grass...
...them the winning answers. Many of the participants were on the fringes of the entertainment business; Dingman was the only one with a newspaper connection. Often, time zones worked for the swindle; e.g., the phony London bank got its answers at least two hours before U.S. newspapers on the West Coast...
...Maybeck on view in a large photo exhibit, which Californians hope will spread Maybeck's fame as an architect, and one of the great romantics. Wrote Critic Lewis Mumford: "But for Bernard Maybeck's fine reticence, his work would have been hailed long ago as the West Coast's counterpart to Wright's prairie architecture...