Word: west
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...efficient use of force plus the growing unpopularity of the Communists had this time saved West Bengal's flabby administration. Undeterred, the Reds set August 31 as the new date when "fire will rage through Calcutta...
...just-opened Ritz Hotel. "I am out of politics," Batista told the few newsmen admitted to his rooms. "Cubans deserve their own decisions. They chose not to have me as President." He planned to sail in a few days for Madeira, a haunt for retired Britons. 400 miles west of the Moroccan coast, which has no airstrip, and is rarely visited by tourists...
Haiti's President Fracçois Duvalier is a man with many real troubles. He is beset at home by an opposition that plots and throws bombs constantly; he is beset east and west by the Dominican Republic and Cuba, which keep trying to strike at each other through Haiti. But he has one powerful friend, the U.S., which sent him 50 marines to train his army and has had destroyers around the Windward Passage to discourage seaborne invasion. Last week one of Duvalier's tactical companies crept up on the 30-man invasion force that slipped...
...still drenched the alfalfa just off the east-west runway at Lancaster (Pa.) Municipal Airport at 5:30 one morning last week when the rangy truck driver from Porterville, Calif, set to work. Wearing only a pair of white toreador pants and a pair of suede chukka boots, Dan Lamore, 31, was gaudy enough. But his bow was the real eye stopper: a 54-in. monster made of fiber glass and maple, which required a force of 250 Ibs. to be shot at full power...
...Paris last week, pundits and plain citizens alike chattered with rage at a paper few of them had ever read-London's jingoistic, whopping (circ. 4,052,712 cut) that showed Charles de Gaulle and West Germany's Konrad Adenauer, fused into a two-headed monster, laying a wreath on the grave of onetime French Premier and Nazi Collaborator Pierre Laval...