Word: indians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Golfing, loafing, playing bridge, Ike found Palm Springs less crowded than 5½ years ago, when he was besieged by movie stars, song pluggers, faith healers and unfrocked Indian chiefs. This time, tight security kept away most of the interlopers. Taking his ease with the boys, marking time until this week's return to Washington and a visit from Mexico's President Adolfo Lopez Mateos, Dwight Eisenhower was serenely secluded, well on the way to conquering his nagging cold...
Wolfe landed down the St. Lawrence River from Quebec on June 27, 1759, aquiver with dreams of glory. But for most of the summer, he fretfully wavered between various battle plans while his army was cut almost in half by dysentery, scurvy and Indian raids. Finally, in desperation, Wolfe decided to strike. and at the last minute (possibly on the advice of spies) chose a spot that proved to be one of the weakest links in the French defenses...
...with his new party in legally disguised forms, Tom Mboya cut to the heart of the issue with the question: Why was it only Africans who were prohibited from organizing on a colony-wide basis? Said he: "We wait to see what action the government now takes against the Indian Congress, the Moslem League, and the European Convention of Associations...
...even his well-wishers frequently find him intolerable. The fact that he had apparently precipitated strife in the high command at a time when India might be facing battle with Red China set off loud demands that he be sacked. The Hindustan Times proclaimed: "Krishna Menon must go!" The Indian Express called Menon "preeminently the guilty...
...Indian hooded cobra, it bit the hand of William White. 32, a professional snake handler in a reptile garden. Serum flown from Miami by Air Force jet saved White. But the cobra's fangs were loosened by the heavy burlap bag through which it struck, and its jaw was dislocated when White jerked his hand away. Infection of the injured mouth killed the snake...