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...President Jose Figueres had called upon the Organization of American States for help. Under a waning moon, a band of armed Costa Rican exiles landed before dawn from two planes at Villa Quesada (pop. 3,500), 40 miles from the Nicaraguan border. About the same time several hundred invaders, afoot or in small boats, moved into the cattle land on the Nicaraguan border near La Cruz. It was a daring challenge to the O.A.S., recognized peacekeeper of the Americas. But early this week, O.A.S. was resolutely measuring...
Does the U.S. need a further easing of credit? To most economists the answer is just the opposite. The Administration, for example, is worried about the stock-market boom, but there is no move afoot to try to check it. The greatest worry is the vast supply of mortgage credit, especially veterans' loans which permit houses to be bought with little or no money down...
...French Tricolor was hauled down and handed to a silently weeping colonel. Next day, in well-ordered triumph the first of 30,000 helmeted, green-clad troops of the Communist Viet Minh rolled into the city in Russian Molotov trucks, Russian command cars and jeeps, on bicycles and afoot. Thus IndoChina's ancient capital (pop. 400,000) passed into Communist hands, in starkly simple faithfulness to the Geneva agreement which turned half of Indo-China over to Red rule...
Principal Green's words apparently had their effect at Raymond. More important, they seemed to set the tone for the entire capital. Some 3,000 Negroes were transferred to white schools last week, and plans were afoot to desegregate the whole school system by next year. By week's end, hardly a protest had been heard. Reported Assistant Superintendent Norman J. Nelson: "We don't know of one single thing untoward happening...
When the Senate met for its third day of debate on Ralph Flanders' motion to censure* McCarthy, Joe's enemies were well aware that a move was afoot to send the motion to committee. Arkansas' Democratic J. William Fulbright had tried to buttress Flanders' generalized motion with a specific six-count amendment, which included the old charge that Joe had shaken down Lustron Corp. to collect a $10,000 fee for writing a housing booklet. Republican Leader William Knowland moved to refer the censure motion to a select committee of three Republicans and three Democrats...