Word: americans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...American whalemen knew the albatross as the "goney" bird long before the U.S. Navy had any interest in the Pacific. There is a whaleman's song entitled The Wings of a Goney, from the logbook of the whaling bark Ocean Rover on a voyage made in 1859 that starts...
BEHIND the anti-American violence in Panama lie history, emotions, economics and politics, stretching all the way from the day in 1903 when Panama became a nation to the day in 1960 when its voters will elect a new President. See HEMISPHERE, "Puzzling" Affair...
...nation's most damaging steel strike dragged toward a court-enforced halt, as the television industry sagged under disclosures of mass deceit and wholesale perjury, newsmen were primed with some uncommonly philosophical questions at the President's press conference last week. Essentially, they were asking: Has American society lost its moral vitality...
...Manhattan, Touré addressed the United Nations, repeating his pleas for understanding of Africa's struggle against colonialism; was guest of honor at an official city luncheon in the Commodore Hotel and at a Waldorf-Astoria dinner given by the African-American Institute. At week's end he canceled a proposed 48-hour visit to Canada, announced he would catch his breath in Manhattan before flying off this week for London and home...
...Mock Republican Convention" sponsored by the Law School Forum at Lowell Lecture Hall last night left Richard M. Nixon and Nelson A. Rockefeller still even in their race for the G.O.P. nomination, speakers Al Capp and Walt Kelly established one thing, at least. The opposition candidate, "from the American political gutter," should be Harold E. Stassen they agreed; "if Harold can do it in blackface, he might make...