Word: numbering
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...almost dark in the gambling house by the bridge, but a fantan game is going on. Chinese and Nungs (residents of Moncay region, born in Indo-China but of Chinese origin and speaking the Cantonese dialect) are putting their piasters on what they think is the winning number. Little shops are open, too. Come what may, these people are not going to Haiphong. If the French pull out and the Communists move in, they expect to keep on doing business...
...Within this vast single market, customs duties for coal & steel will be abolished. So will differential freight charges (i.e., cheaper rates for export over domestic markets). Inefficient mines and mills will be closed. This will apply particularly to Belgium, where a protective tariff has kept alive a number of sub-par enterprises. Within five years Belgian coal production will decline from 28 million to 23 million tons; owners of doomed mines will be compensated from an "equalization fund" contributed mainly by France and Germany; and the Belgian coal price, now 55% higher than the German, will fall to the single...
...Jelep-la. Tibet is only 30 miles away. For that reason, Kalimpong has collected over the years a number of mystical characters who arrived via Jelep-la pass from Tibet, and another bunch who would give their last rupee to travel the other way. Foreign cultists, scholars, artists, adventurers and missionaries plod Kalimpong's streets, panting to explore Tibet and its particular brand of Buddhism, but lacking permission to get in. Last week, as they have since the Chinese Reds invaded Tibet in October, Kalimpongians waited breathlessly, along with rumormongering newsmen (TIME, Nov. 20), to welcome the Dalai Lama...
...Roman Catholics in The Netherlands now number 3,703,000, Protestants...
...plebe for a while to keep him on a leash-and, of course, to teach him to love West Point the hard way. From there on, the film drags in Flirtation Walk, the honor system, the show-must-go-on, a pretentious cantata celebrating the Academy and such production-number props as the U.S. flag. Through it all, breathing hard and never able to obey the cadets' admonitions to "suck in that gut," Cagney struts, mugs and rampages with the embarrassing insistence of a pugnacious drunk whom no one quite dares to lead to the door. For its best...