Word: americae
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Central Park. "I sleep well and don't worry," said Castro. "I will not live one day more than the day I am going to die." He told the rally of 20,000 Spanish-speaking New Yorkers that "I came for a suffering, backward and hungry Latin America." His aim: "Humanism-liberty with bread." The crowd took up the chant, "Fidel Castro! Fidel...
...Secretarial Student Pat Williams, 18, went "numb" with astonishment upon hearing herself acclaimed. Winning the beauty derby over nine white finalists, the well-stacked (36-24½-37) new Miss Sacramento, first Negro ever to wear the local crown, now aspires to the Miss California and Miss America titles...
...title, who in fact, needs someone else to lead him." Said the Daily Telegraph: "President Eisenhower is, alas, no longer robust, and the West can provide no substitute for an active and authoritative American Secretary of State." Said the Daily Express: LEADERSHIP LIES LIKE A DISCARDED SCEPTER IN AMERICA TODAY...
...Broken Man." Said the Daily Herald: "Sick men can't rule the world . . . It is the West's tragedy that the President is NOT fit for service. At 68, America's wartime hero is a broken man, incapable of the energy required to grasp important matters for any length of time...
...equally impressive--though more influenced by Robert Osborn than his dialogue and narration are by anybody I can think of. A picture of Passionella in her swimming pool, with a vast expanse of bosom floating before her, says more than a thousand "Will you mammary me" jokes about America's breast-fixation. Mr. Feiffer uses a flexible combination of text and pictures thoroughly intermixed; nobody's else is quite like it, and no quotations simply of words will get across its effect. Even people not in the in-group, even (God save the mark) people who approve of H-bomb...