Word: young
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Keys to the City. From the moment the presidential Independence touched down at the National Airport, having brought the Shah from Teheran, the President spared no pains to entertain his guest. Harry Truman greeted the young Shah heartily, bundled him off to review an honor guard, and steered him through the gauntlet of White House photographers. Together they drove in an open limousine through flag-draped streets to present the Shah with a six-inch key to the nation's capital. At a formal state banquet in the Carlton Hotel that night, Harry Truman offered him the keys...
...Shah was not used to the President's early hours, but he was up in time to accept a specially built 30-06 hunting rifle with a silver butt-plate engraved: "From the President to the Shahinshah of Iran." Said the President : "A very earnest and sincere young...
Jostling armies of liquid-eyed children still play in its filthy, glass-strewn alleys, its dark hallways, and in vacant lots, where the refuse of generations is packed solid, a foot higher than the sidewalks. Its old men are sad. The young men who haunt its streets by night-callow bravoes with oiled black hair, sharp suits and the melancholy curse of pimples-loiter in knots with expressionless faces, just as they did when Frank Costello had a gun in his pocket and was one of them...
...even months." In fact, the substance of the Paris agreement on Germany was known last week. Thanks largely to France's Foreign Minister Robert Schuman who had set what he considered a sound policy above French fears of Germany, the agreement represented a sizable boost for the young West German Republic...
...main street of Sha-taokok village (see cut). But Communist influence daily makes itself felt in the colony. Through labor unions, the Communists already have a grip on Hong Kong's light & power, transportation, docks and its telephone system. A typical crisis arose last week when a young Chinese telephone worker claimed he had been slapped by a British supervisor. The worker's union threatened to strike unless the supervisor apologized and was fired. After five days' negotiations, the Briton apologized, was transferred to another post. "A most damnable time for something like this to happen," said...