Word: northerns
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Park, there were people who attached more importance to the color of a man's skin than to his achievements. The town's only two Negro families lived in the northern section. Julian paid $34,000 for an ornate 15-room house in Chicago Avenue neighborhood, and began spending $8,000 more for landscaping and improvements, intending to move his wife and two children in by Christmas. When the news got out, the water commissioner refused to turn on the water until the Julians threatened to go to court. Anonymous telephone callers made threats...
...Little Moscow" got that way largely because of Ferdinand Domela Nieuwenhuis, an ex-clergyman with more passion for Marx than Luther who toured northern Holland in the igth Century. Nieuwenhuis first preached Socialism, moved on to anarchism and brought Finsterwolde with him. Finsterwolde's firebrands voted as far left as they could. Eventually, this meant voting Communist...
...Tibetan kind is the Mahayana, or northern. In an effort to bring the two schools together, Ryan publishes a monthly magazine called Stepping Stones. This infuriates Greek-English Author Marco Pallis, a Kalimpongian who wants Tibetans to stick with Mahayana. Pallis recently wrote a book warning Tibetans against Christian missionaries and other infidels with strange ideas and has been quietly sending copies across the border...
While the M.G.M. safari was beating through the trackless veldts and jungles of South Africa in search of King Solomon's Mines, J. Arthur Rank was mounting forays along the northern coast in an attempt to catch a gang of gun-runners. The result of his expedition is highly unsatisfying; "The Golden Salamander," despite its title, contains no animals, and for all the good J. Arthur made of the Tunisian scenery, he might just as well have shot the picture on the Cornish coast and saved his sterling...
...French forces are outnumbered 2 to 1 in the crucial northern theater. Against Ho Chi Minh's 70,000 Communists the French have less than 40,000 men. The rest of the French army of 166,000 are garrisoning southern IndoChina or are in supply services. In fire power, unit for unit, French and Communist forces are evenly matched. Ho now has heavy artillery, no air force. But the Communists are building airfields on both sides of the Chinese border. A French airman has reported seeing six or seven enemy armored cars or tanks at Caobang. French armor...