Holiday trip to Rangoon and Burmese health checks
Mrs Don BP Carter recounts a holiday to Rangoon from Myithyina Burma with the group noting rough weather on the flight, dental visits by a Chinese dentist, Embassy doctor physicals, and general good health. She mentions joyful social time with friends amid travel and updates on teeth and kit appointment.
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Don BP. Carter
Myithyina
Burma
Rangoo
joi
Rangoon
Don
Judy Lee
Rane goon
Lake bound Burma trip yields floating villages and strange crops
The Carter family details days at Taunggyi and Mandalay including a lake with houseboats, floating gardens, and leg rowing. They note poverty, pagodas, and a school lunch aboard a bamboo classroom, plus sericulture in Maymyo, and local Buddhist gifts to phonyis. They describe boats, gas shortages, and daily life amid turmoil as they prepare to return via India.
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Indiana
TCA
ICA
Younggyi
astory
fise
Taunggyi
Mandalay
plate
treanty
Uniat
Burma
Masmyo
seuc
Mayne
Myathyina
Miymye
Judy Lee
Myithyina
Mac
Victor
U. S. Information Service
Rajgoor
farina
USA
India
Mediterranean
Europe
Carter
Ike offers to share atomic secrets with Russia
President Eisenhower proposes giving away United States atomic secrets and supplies to Russia in a plan critics call a Roosevelt era giveaway. Editorials react with disbelief, predicting Russia may hide what it receives while spies may reduce risk by sharing information. The piece notes historical parallels and questions potential political timing.
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Mer
Eisenhower
Phin
United States
Russia
Pearl Harbor
Roosevelt
Christmas Cookie Sampler and Pastry Box Offer
Sampler box features eight varieties of special and unusual Christmas cookies in a plastic box or single variety option. Box price is 1.25 dollars. Christmas stollens are fruit filled coffee cakes at 49 cents each. Dutch banket letters are holiday pastries with almond filling and butter crust.
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BANKET
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Haima
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