Word: 60th
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...delegates to the 60th Congress of the National Association of Manufacturers in Manhattan last week could not have picked a happier time to gather...
Senator William Knowland (Fri. 11:30 p.m., ABC). Speech to the 60th N.A.M. convention...
...unlamented ex-dictator observed his 60th birthday 670 miles from Buenos Aires, in Asunción, Paraguay, where he angered the new Argentine government by saying in an interview that he still considered himself Argentina's constitutional President. The Foreign Office cracked back with a strong warning to Paraguay. At week's end, amid recurring reports that he will move to Switzerland, Paraguay promised to make Perón behave...
International Incident. To avoid serious clashes, Britain, Argentina and Chile signed an agreement in 1949 to refrain from sending warships south of the 60th parallel. Last month a Foreign Office spokesman in London issued a warning that Britain might be forced to disregard the three-nation pact if "incidents" kept occurring in Antarctica. The point was that the General San Martin's new base not only lay well within Britain's claimed slice of Antarctica but was near the announced starting point of a planned British-New Zealand attempt to make the first overland trek across the antarctic...
...among party leaders. He has broken precedent by personally signing decrees of the Central Committee. He has allowed himself to be named as one of a previously unheard-of subcommittee (the others: Zhdanov and Shcherbakov, both deceased, and Bulganin) to direct military policy during World War II. On his 60th birthday (April 17, 1954) he graciously accepted the Order of Lenin (his fourth) and was made a Hero of Socialist Labor. At a Moscow reception he told a British newsman: "Churchill speaks for Britain, I speak for the Soviet Union...