Word: bannered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...morning sun was hot as President Eisenhower's Columbine touched down at Panama's Tocumen Airport. Firing borrowed U.S. Army guns, the Guardia Nacional boomed its 21-gun salute, the honor guard snapped to attention, and the band swung first into The Star-Spangled Banner and then Panama's Himno Nacional. The President of the U.S. stepped from his plane, was greeted warmly by Panama's President Ricardo Arias, dozens of military and diplomatic VIPs (including John Foster Dulles, who had arrived 13 minutes earlier). Ike, his collar size down to 15½ from 16, looked...
...West Germany the Hamburger Abendblatt (circ. 310,000) prints daily reports of air radioactivity. Last week a banner headline screamed that the radioactivity of Hamburg's air had risen tenfold between July 3 and July 5. Not until the sixth paragraph did the Abendblatt's expert admit that the activity was still too low to do any damage whatever...
...Playwright Miller's rural retreat, joy was unbounded. Mama Miller hauled out her chicken and everybody dug into the wedding feast. In the big cities the headlines were beginning to roar the news, OUR MAN KISSED THE BRIDE, brayed the New York Post in a Page-One banner. "It's the happiest meal I've ever eaten!" bubbled Marilyn. She impulsively bussed Arthur Miller, who husked: "It couldn't be better. We are married, and now the world can go back to what it was doing." At week's end, Playwright Miller had six more...
...country's own backlands guerrilla war. Rojas then read off a solemn oath, swearing the servicemen, in the name of Jesus Christ and in the memory of Simon Bolivar, to "fight for the domination of the Third Force until Colombians lay down their political hatreds before the national banner." They took the oath. Next afternoon, at Bogotá's Campin stadium, Rojas likewise swore in a throng of youth, labor, farm and women's groups...
Before a midyear Washington conference of business leaders in the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Hall of Flags last week, Dr. Emerson P. Schmidt, top U.S. Chamber economist, unfurled a banner prediction: "Nineteen fifty-six promises to be our best year in history in terms of production, employment and earnings. This prosperity ought to carry over into...