Word: americae
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Point rivals, he made his first big mark in the Philippines (1913-16). His ability to plan and execute maneuvers struck Commanding General J. Franklin Bell as something barely short of miraculous. "Keep your eyes on George Marshall," Bell told his staff. "He is the greatest military genius of America since Stonewall Jackson...
...than the 7-4 vote needed to throw deadlocked issues such as Suez and Hungary into the General Assembly. (But the U.S. argues that by 1961 Russia-fearing Finland and the neutralist United Arab Republic will probably win seats, might cut the reliable majority to 6-5.) ¶Latin America has never been a monolithic bloc, even if the Russians do call it the U.S.'s "mechanical majority." As Mexican Delegate Luis Padilla Nervo puts it, "the Latin Americans do not follow instructions from anybody except their own governments." Compared to the Soviet bloc, which votes solid on every...
Only on major cold-war issues does Latin America usually side with the U.S. -and even then there is always the temptation to pluck a feather from the eagle. Example: admission to the U.N. of Red China, which has been staging a major propaganda drive across Latin America (TIME, July 27). Last month Cuban Delegate Manuel Bisbe made the first open gesture by abstaining from backing the block-Red China bloc. Now Brazil's U.N. delegate, Augusto Frederico Schmidt, blusters that "popular outcry in our countries is becoming so strong on the Red China issue that we may soon...
Racial Intermarriage. Fitzpatrick sees the Puerto Rican migration as a real boon to New York and America. Unlike the previous immigrants, the Puerto Ricans bring with them a history of rack-tolerance and a tradition of social intermingling that lets them marry people of other skin colors, from Negroes to whites...
...Miss America, Mississippi's custom-made (36-24-36) Lynda Lee Mead, 20, got a roaring welcome-home parade in her home town of Natchez (pop. 29,200) from some 50,000 curbsiders. In Jackson, state legislators, elated over Mississippi misses copping the Miss America crown two years in a row, passed a resolution commending Lynda Lee, authorized issuance of special, optional license plates for cars' front bumpers (price: $1). The legend: "Mississippi, Home of Miss Americas, Land of Beautiful Women...