Word: american
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Died. John Lenord Merrill, 83, cable tycoon (All American Cables & Radio, Inc., American Cable & Radio Corp.), who helped wire the two Americas together; in Manhattan...
...late Traicho Kostov, who was in no position to deny the tale, was quoted as explaining that his defiant attitude in court had been due to "nervous agitation and the unhealthy ambition of an intellectual . . . The sentence is absolutely just and . . . necessary in the struggle against the Anglo-American imperialists." Bulgaria's people were not told of Kostov's execution, nor did they hear of his alleged message from the gallows, until just before the start of their national elections last Sunday. The news apparently put the voters into the proper frame of mind. For the Red Fatherland...
Critics of the State Department's Latin American policy noted impatiently that its "recognize-and-deplore" formula had given little but cold comfort to democrats in Venezuela, Peru and Colombia. Acheson was aware of the criticism, but he applied the formula again, apparently in an effort to show that it can sometimes get results...
...statement drew applause from other Latin nations. Even Trujillo's old ally, Nicaraguan Dictator "Tacho" Somoza, spoke up: "Nicaragua knows how to settle its problems with its neighbors through the inter-American peace machinery. It's a shame that the Dominican Republic can't handle its grievances that way." At week's end, Latin diplomats were laying odds that the point would not be lost on lonely Trujillo...
...Carnegie scientists were cautious about jumping to conclusions. But at least two conclusions are possible: 1) that the earth's magnetic field has shifted radically since 200 million years ago, or 2) that the North American continent, including Maryland, was once near the south pole and has since drifted slowly to its present position...