Word: civilizations
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Iran is a more tempting mouse. It has a lot of oil (which Russia needs), and it is militarily helpless. The trouble is, however, that Iran's Communist-led Tudeh Party is too weak to win a civil...
Germany is the most toothsome mouse of all. On paper, there are enough Communists in Eastern Germany to start a Korea-style civil war. The West's experts believe, however, that the West Germans could knock the Marx out of the East Germans. And if Russia had to intervene -well, that would be another invitation for all-out atomic...
When he was named chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board, slightly more than two years ago, easygoing, friendly Joseph J. O'Connell Jr. explained candidly why he took the job: "I was flattered by the President's request and couldn't find any good reason for saying...
...during the war. Handsome General Luigi Gallo, who was a squadron leader in Italo Balbo's famed formation flight to the U.S. in 1933, and in 1945 became director of Italian civil aviation, was made boss of operations...
...drunken tinker stands in a Connemara market place after a fair, offering to tear the living heart out of any Connemara gouger who will fight him. A few feet away a young Connemara man offers to crucify any tinker living. The two bawl insults at each other till the Civil Guards arrive, then meekly break it up without laying a finger on each other...