Word: lining
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...last week, as a wintry noon sun glinted dully on the stunted pines and heather, a long line of sleek black Mercedes limousines snaked past the low mounds to a grey stone obelisk that rises like a warning finger over the baleful site of Belsen's barracks and torture cells. From the leading car stepped Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, come with three of his Cabinet Ministers, members of the diplomatic corps and a group of Jewish leaders to pay tribute to Belsen's Jewish dead. It was the first visit of any high West German official to the place...
...Moslems protested against his promise to make Buddhism the state religion, he gently reminded them that it was he who had translated their own Koran into Burmese. And while campaigners enthusiastically shrieked epithets at each other as in the old days ("Epileptic!" "Mange-covered leper!"), U Nu took the line that a victory for his opponents "might produce a third World...
...that just grew and grew in the past year, the army also runs a financial empire that even U Nu would find hard to dislodge. Among its activities: a bookshop, bank, import-export bureau, bus company, electrical-appliance outlets, a fuel-supply firm, a department store, a shipping line, the control of nearly all fisheries, as well as plans to sell everything from shoes to paint to coke...
...election day last week 8,200,000 Keralites went to the polls for a record turnout-85% of those eligible. Wives arose before dawn to line up at the polls ahead of later-stirring husbands and sons. Along the Malabar coast fishermen came in straight from a night on the sea. The non-Communist coalition had swept 94 out of 126 legislative seats. By combining to eliminate three-and four-cornered races, the Congress Party, Praja Socialists and Moslem League, usually at one another's throats, concentrated on the Reds instead. Swept out of office were seven...
...flowers bloom and contend" and then rooted them out, the voice of dissent has been hard to hear in Red China. But it was plainly to be seen last week in the pages of New Construction, a nonparty theoretical monthly permitted occasionally to deviate slightly from the party line. The critic was ancient and prestigious Ma Yinchu, president of Peking University. "More than 200 people have criticized my views, and I hear more are entering the battle," wrote Ma defiantly. "I accept the challenge, and even though I am nearly 80 years old and know that an individual cannot resist...