Word: setting
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...arrived; Moscow Bureau Chief Edmund Stevens came to concentrate on Khrushchev, Bonn Bureau Chief John Mecklin to watch the German side of the story. Paris Bureau Chief Frank White not only followed the French position but also coordinated the whole operation. From their well prepared positions, they were all set to report in depth to TIME'S editors in New York on the sudden explosion at the summit...
Last week, with Rhee fallen from power and most of the hated police hiding indoors, 70 relatives of the Shinwon victims plucked up their nerve, made a pilgrimage to the mass grave. Then they set to work clearing away underbrush and Setting up gravestones. Suddenly they were swept by an impulse for revenge. Unable to take reprisals against the absent Colonel Kim, they marched to the house of Park Yung Bo, who had been mayor in Colonel Kim's time, and as the owner of a rice-winery was still the town's richest man. Dragging Park...
...emerge from primitivism only in modern times. During their tenure, the Japanese tried and failed to open up the back country by putting a road across the 10,000-ft. mountain range that forms a spine down the center of the island. Four years ago the Chinese Nationalists set out to make the long-dreamed-of road a reality. Last week, after the expenditure of $13.5 million and the loss of 212 lives to avalanches and other mishaps, the roadway was finished...
...half-century after Rough Rider Theodore Roosevelt made a year-long safari through Kenya and Uganda, Teddy's grandson Kermit, 44, a vice president of Gulf Oil Corp., set out with two of his sons to retrace some of the route. Kermit Roosevelt will carry the same .405 big-game rifle that his grandfather lugged from Mombasa to Khartoum, but the present-day Roosevelt's safari will last only 25 days, be a much less lavish expedition than Teddy's. Aside from the hunting. Kermit, also a writing man, will take notes and pictures for a contemplated...
...opponent had been training for months, but under very different circumstances. In a shabby, shut-down Fairfield County, Conn, nightclub, with a ring set up on the dance floor and punching bags slung over the sagging bandstand. Floyd Patterson talked broodingly to the only reporter (from TIME) who had come to watch him work...