Intersection Is Changed Little Horse Remains in Mexico City
Mexico City reshapes El Caballito as Paseo de la Reforma extends for three kilometers. The Little Horse statue remains on a ship-shaped plot amid new traffic, parks, and planned modern buildings, while historic embassies and the Foreign Ministry structures were demolished.
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Mexico City
New York
Times Square
London
Piccadilly Circus
Mexico
United States Embassy
Charles Lindbergh
John F. Kennedy
Spain
Charles IV
Manuel Tolsa
Paseo LA Reforma
U. S
Mexi
Party of National Action
PAN
Foreign Ministry
Russia needs U N and should realize facts
The piece notes Andrei Gromyko defending Soviet lines at the United Nations while Adlai Stevenson pursues debt payments to the UN. It contrasts that with Mao Tse-tung's critical interview about Russia's territories and imperial reach, highlighting Sino Soviet tensions and diplomatic friction.
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United Nations
Y. Y
NEA
Andrei Gromyko
Nikita Khrushchev
Kremlin
United States
U.S
Adlai Stevenson
Moscow
Russia
Mao
South Kurile Islands
Japan
Outer Mongolia
Europe
Lake Baikal
Vladivostok
Khabarovsk
Kamcchatka
Soviet Union
Mao Tse - Tung
Pot
Peking
Wang Ping - Nan
Red
Con Men and Cobras in New Delhi’s Street Scene
A citizen report details New Delhi con artists from cobra vendors to pickpockets and beggar gangs using children. It notes officials like Home Minister G L Nanda facing daily bribes complaints and calls for wider anti corruption hearings.
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New Delhi
Rudyard Kipling
Sahib
Gauri Shankar
Heaven and Earth
roVef
G. L. Nanda
Nanda
Daily Mail
Moscow’s Red Square a magnet for millions and contrasts
The article notes Moscow’s Red Square draws millions to Lenin’s tomb and the GUM department store. Lenin’s tomb opened in 1930, a glass–cased mausoleum with the embalmed leader beneath a scarlet couch. GUM, once government offices, now offers 30 000 items priced beyond many visitors’ means.
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Moscow
Red Square
Kremlin
Kremlin Wall
Nikolai Lenin
GUM
Lenin
Stalin
World Today background material page
A page compiling background material from Herald services. Provides context and summaries of ongoing global events for editors needing quick reference. Includes named organizations and places, with emphasis on timely developments and geopolitical angles.
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Herald Services
Art Behind Bars Keeps Soul Alive Behind Prison Walls
In Britain a Koestler Award Scheme fosters art among inmates. Dartmoor and other prisons see novels, paintings, and music by prisoners, including Don Robson author of Young and Sensitive and Gypsy Jim Smith winner with a Victorian merry go round model.
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London
NEA
Her Majesty
Arthur Koestler
Budapest
Vienna
Koestler
Comintern
Jim Smith
Las Year Smith
Wakefield Cathedral
Don Robson
Drinking Oranges Prefer Its Water
Florida researchers report that a 15 year old orange tree weighs about 1000 pounds with half water content. The tree produces about 500 pounds of fruit annually, the fruit being 80 percent water, and each tree absorbs 30 to 50 gallons of water daily.
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Gainesville
Florida Agricultural Experiment Station
North African Women Struggle for Emancipation
Feature on Tunisian Algerian and Moroccan women challenging traditional roles after colonial rule. It notes women’s rising participation in government services, schooling, and public life while facing opposition and lingering veiling customs. Mentions Bourguiba era reforms and cross-border shifts in attitudes.
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Andrew Borowiec
Tunis
Tunisia
Algeria
Morocco
North Africa
Algiers
Habib Bourguiba
Ministry of Health and Social Affairs
African Buffalo Block Trains Near Kruger Reserve
Train crews fear organized ambush as 400 African buffaloes block ore trains in Phalaborwa area. In a dark morning incident an ore-laden train derailed after collisions with the herd, two buffaloes killed and a third trapped under the cowcatcher, following a prior death of six buffaloes in another collision.
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Kruger National Game Reserve
Phalaborwa
Sihanouk Walks Tightrope Between U S Aid and China
The Cambodian leader Prince Norodom Sihanouk shifts from rupturing with the United States to resuming talks as he weighs communist ties and Cambodian independence. An Asian diplomat notes he seeks protection from China yet avoids becoming a Beijing satellite. A new U S Cambodian negotiation in India may shape his nation’s future in the free world.
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Leon Dennen
United Nations
N. Y
NEA
Norodom Sihanouk
Cambodia
America
United States
Johnson
Russia
Red China
Sihanouk
U.S
South
Viet Nam
Thailand
State Department
Kennedy
Peking
Communist Party
Weilds
Laos
Washington
Southeast Asia
India
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