Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Maybe some European colons might mull over the news from Morocco next door. After dodging French naval patrols, the Communist freighter Bulgaria docked at the Moroccan harbor of Tangier, unloaded 3,400 tons of arms, including 14,000 rifles and automatic weapons, which were promptly shipped to the town of...
Last week the vast but thinly populated (650,000) French territory of Mauritania became the 18th nation to achieve independence this year. Tunisia quickly recognized it, but Morocco refused to, claiming Mauritania as a lost province willfully withheld from it by France. In October Morocco's fiery Deputy Premier...
Western Europe last week was amazed and bemused at the sight of the rich U.S. suddenly talking like a poor relation. Cartoonists pictured a tattered Ike holding out his hat as horrified Economics Min ister Ludwig Erhard told West German Chancellor Adenauer, "He says we have to make the same...
¶"In the days of your prosperity you would doubtless have made the conventional rounds, London, Stratford, Winchester, Bath, Windsor, walking on a carpet of your own dollars. Today, when every cent must pay its way, new glories await you." In inexpensive Staffordshire, visit "Walsall, one of the few guidebook...
¶"Our free libraries and reading-rooms are ideal for forgetting hunger pangs, and are well patronized by Britons eager to strike up an interesting silence . . . Sympathizers with your plight will readily escort you on tours of gasworks, municipal offices and other near showplaces such as the British Transport Commission...