Word: bananas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scrapbook measurements, Vice President Nixon's 28-day, ten-country swing through Mexico and the Caribbean area was a bulging success. It brought reams of enthusiastic newspaper stories, and snapshots of Dick and Pat Nixon getting keys to cities, eating bananas in banana republics, shaking hands with grinning laborers, sipping coconut milk, greeting hospital patients, and-finally-getting the big welcome-home hug from their kids after landing in Washington last weekend. But between the scrapbook pages there was another story-the story of grueling, 18-hour days, of hard cramming that would stagger a Phi Beta Kappa...
...Heard Pepe Figueres, long a critic of the U.S.-owned United Fruit Co.'s operations in Costa Rica, passionately defend the firm from a pending U.S. Department of Justice antitrust suit. Figueres argued that United Fruit's "bigness . . . has led to the stability of our banana production...
...gullied wastelands, the shriek of tires and the stench of scorched rubber filled entire valleys. On straight stretches of new road built by his government, Pérez Jiménez watched the speedometer needle of the Mercedes-Benz tremble around 160 kilometers (100 m.p.h.). He flashed by goats, banana plantations, royal palms and startled girls in magenta dresses; he hurried dustily on through villages where school children lined the streets for shrill vivas, through towns that tried to attract official attention to their rustic needs with crude banners impossible to read at high speed. After nine hours he coasted...
...Honduras (pop. 1,600,000), where the invaders of Guatemala gathered last spring, is a banana republic with too few bananas (because of storms). It is pulling back, under a dictator, from the brink of a revolution that threatened when no candidate got a majority in a three-way election (TIME, Dec. 20). Thus distracted, Honduras let some of last week's invaders of Costa Rica gather there and move on to Nicaragua...
...game wiles away long winter evenings. It looks like a great deal of fun, and perhaps its intricacies can be explained here. Number one player says, "I went to Treasure Island and I took a shoe." Then the second player repeats all this and adds another item, like a banana or something wilder. It goes on and on and gets zanier and zanier until everybody is laughing so much they can't remember. Before hysterics began however, the bearded guitar player launched a song. Not everybody knew the words, but those who didn't nodded their heads and looked wistful...