Word: americans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Just before her news conference, Mrs. Khrushchev had been honor guest at a lunch at a private club, with Pat Nixon the official hostess. Said Nina of American women: "They're all eager to shake hands, all very kindhearted, very friendly toward us, very much like our Russian women are toward American women. Foreign ministers spend a lot of time arguing and trying to persuade each other. It could be easier for women to reach an agreement among themselves [but] after all. less depends...
Though the B-70, designed by North American, is still in development stages, the first tactical wing of B-70s (45 aircraft) is scheduled to become operational in only five years. It will be costly: prototypes will run upwards of $150 million apiece, and the whole program will run to $3.5 billion by 1965. A Defense Department budget slash last week killed off plans for the last far-out supersonic interceptor, the Mach3 North American F-108. Air Force flyboys trust and hope that the $2.4 billion savings will help support the B70 project when it comes under the budget...
...Most Latin American Presidents have money," said Brazilian ex-President Joao Cafe Filho last week, his tone a bit wistful. "I did not have anything when I took office, and I had nothing when I left." Four years after he left the presidency, Cafe Filho (TIME, Cover, Dec. 6, 1954) still has nothing-or next to it. His poverty is so impressive that the legislature of his tiny, impoverished home state of Rio Grande do Norte last week voted him a pension of 40,000 cruzeiros ($240) a month for life...
After a swing through northern and western Honduras, 45 priests (from nine religious orders in six Latin American countries and Spain), who came to reinforce the local clergy, will move on next month to prepare for a similar blitz effort in neighboring Nicaragua. Said President Villeda Morales: "We reiterate our determination to put into divine hands the destiny of Honduras." Pope John XXIII declared that from the new dedication "the graces of heaven have been falling in torrents on your souls...
...three in suburban flea pits. The transition from provincial hoofer to Parisian headliner began in 1944 when Montand, newly arrived in Paris, happened to appear on a theater bill with Chanteuse Edith Piaf, became her protégé. With Piaf's help, he dropped synthetic American numbers like Les Plaines du Far West, began to concentrate on the authentic, dramatic vignettes that are now his stock in song ("One has to realize," says he, "that a song is a theatrical play"). For a time, Yves sang the Communist line, appeared at party rallies, specialized in social-protest numbers...