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...gives real promise of stopping Communist infiltration in the Americas. For three tense hours, delegates to the Tenth Inter-American Conference had voted clause by clause on the U.S. anti-Communist resolution, a state paper that went well beyond the vague and timid declarations of earlier conferences. After the 51st ballot, Secretary of State Dulles allowed himself a pleased smile. Final vote: 17 to 1 for the U.S. proposal...
...51st annual meeting of the American Automobile Association in Los Angeles last week, the delegates had some stern criticism for 1) trucks on the roads and 2) the high horsepower in new auto engines...
...Boston, Carl ("Bobo") Olson, the U.S.'s top-ranking middleweight boxer now that Sugar Ray Robinson has retired, scored his eighth straight victory (and 51st in 56 bouts) over Norman Hayes with a unanimous ten-round decision. Hopeful next on Olson's agenda: a bout with Britain's Randy Turpin, who took the title from Robinson, then lost it again...
...verge of divorce, the rival factions of Britain's Labor Party had been protesting publicly that their differences were really nothing at all. Any minute, said both sides, would see the start of a second honeymoon. Last week, in the theoretical privacy of the party's 51st annual conference at Morecambe, a Lancashire seaside resort familiar to many a honeymooner, the pent-up emotions in both factions exploded in a headline-making brawl...
...after the commander of Patrol Wing Two at Ford Island broadcast: "Air raid, Pearl Harbor! This is no drill," the war between the U.S. and Japan came to an official end. Japan promptly started a nine-day holiday to commemorate 1) the Peace Treaty, 2) Emperor Hirohito's 51st birthday, 3) May Day, 4) Japan's Memorial Day, 5) Japan's war-renouncing Constitution, 6) Children's Day. Headlined Tokyo's Nippon Times: LITTLE SIGNS OF JOY; PEOPLE IN QUANDARY...