Word: americans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Flying home last week from a postelection South American vacation, New York's Rockefeller flew on to Washington for a meeting of President Eisenhower's Advisory Committee on Government Organization, stayed for a 55-minute talk with Richard Nixon. At talk's end Rockefeller said he and Nixon had agreed that the G.O.P. should develop as many men of national stature as possible and have them available for the 1960 G.O.P. presidential nomination...
...that disturbed the politicians. Some voters seemed to feel that in voting for De Gaulle they had freed themselves of all that parliamentary nonsense. Except for the Communists and a few independents such as Pierre Mendès-France (who is being attacked as having "sold out to Anglo-American Jewocracy"), virtually every candidate was clinging like death to Charles de Gaulle's coattails. Forbidden to use his name, at least four parties ran on his Cross of Lorraine symbol. But despite a profusion of new labels, the faces were generally the same old ones, including at least...
After only two days of discussion, Touré and Nkrumah issued a ringing communiqué: "Inspired by the example of the 13 American colonies, which on attainment of their independence constituted themselves into a confederacy which ultimately developed into the United States of America," the two nations, though separated by the French Ivory Coast. would join in a United Republic. "As a first step, we have agreed to adopt a union flag and to develop between our two governments the closest contacts . . . especially in the fields of defense and foreign and economic affairs...
...between summer and winter) alone had not melted the hotelmen; they had studied Puerto Rico's tourist prospects. In eleven years tourism has jumped sixfold to become Puerto Rico's third industry, with a $31 million annual volume -more than the tourist trade of all the South American countries combined...
...idea of the meeting was helped along by U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Robert C. Hill, a friend of both men. Johnson is an increasingly ardent booster of U.S.-Latin American trade; as a Texan, he is well aware of the problems just south of the Rio Grande. López Mateos generally favors U.S. development capital for Mexico...