Word: americae
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...YORK, May 14--President Eisenhower proposed tonight that the federal government underwrite the cost of a $100 million research unit to help preserve America's freedom in the nuclear...
...article, which is very unfavorable to America, was written by Anatole Valiuzhenich, a member of the student editor group which visited the U.S.A. He was also assigned by the Committee of Youth Organizations of the U.S.S.R. to assist the American exchange group which visited the U.S.S.R. during July and August...
This translation of the article has been made in order to give English speaking readers a chance to inspect a compact but rich and skillfully presented array of negative images and ideas about America. The article is a particularly powerful one because it presents America in the most concrete form, that is, in specific episodes and in the words and actions of actual organizations and individual Americans who are identified by name...
...four days' stay in picturesque San Francisco was for us a real maelstrom. We tried to cut down the frenzied tempo, which interfered with our chance to make a thorough acquaintance with the life of America, but we were not often successful...
...happened to the Korean-American, Sammy Lee. This athlete twice won gold medals for the U.S.A. in diving at the Olympic Games. The President himself sent him on a tour in the Far East. And why? So he would be an example of the absence of racial discrimination in America. And what happened to him when he came back? Because of the color of his skin they wouldn't permit him to buy a little house below Los Angeles. And he wasn't even a Negro...