Word: northerns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Korea the backbone of Communist resistance was broken, but on the larger battlefield of Asia, the week brought defeat as well as victory for the free world. The French position in northern Indo-China was made exceedingly precarious by a brilliant campaign of Ho Chi Minh's troops, recently trained and equipped by the Chinese Reds (see below...
...southern jet stream, according to the Panair do Brasil meteorologists who discovered it, probably girdles the southern part of the globe. Moving eastward at 36,000 ft., its speed is slightly less than that of the northern stream, and its core is sometimes 180 miles wide. It rides erratically over Rio de Janeiro in winter and Patagonia in summer. Since it borders weather fronts up & down South America, Panair officials are trying to plot its tortured turnings and twistings for more accurate weather forecasting. They also want to know more about it for the day when their jet airliners...
...three and sometimes four programs. They come to him, not over competing networks, but on three interrelated radio services called the Light, the Home, and the Third Program. In addition, each of the six regions of Great Britain (the North, Midlands and West of England; Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland) has a BBC station that broadcasts local shows, news and sporting events or programs in Welsh and Gaelic...
...polio sometimes persists until late in the year, no one knows. This year's figures were boosted by late outbreaks in northern states...
...diggers under Robert T. Stephenson of the Smithsonian found "ceremonial pits" 90 feet across and ten feet deep. In one was the skeleton of a bear, laid out with a full ceremonial burial. Apparently the Trinity River Indians worshiped or otherwise honored bears, as did the hairy Ainu of northern Japan...