Word: centrals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...read with interest your account of the trip down through Central America by the two representatives of the American Automobile Association [May 18]. I really felt sorry for those two poor men having such a hard time...
...best indication of how little trouble we had was the total car-repair bill for the trip through Central America and back: it came to just...
Despite the fact that they get from France more than they pay back in the form of sugar, rum, coffee and bananas, the islanders are now demanding an ever greater share of the central government's money. They complain that the minimum wages still hang below mainland standards, fret about the population surge that is adding 16,000 people a year to Martinique's current 265,000 (on 385 sq. mi.) and Guadeloupe's 250,000 (on 588 sq. mi.). A potential income source is tourism; the islands offer balmy beaches, inexpensive French champagne and perfume...
Australian patrols venturing into the central highlands of New Guinea just after World War II found that their arrival set off a tremendous religious movement. The natives killed all their pigs-principal sources of food and symbol of social position-in the belief that after three days of darkness, "Great Pigs" would appear from the sky. Imitation radio antennas made of rope and bamboo were set up to receive news of the millennium, when black skins would turn white and all the harsh demands of life would miraculously disappear...
...Klein is Nixon's second appointee this year, in what is recognized as the building of a presidential campaign staff. The first: Robert H. Finch, chairman of Los Angeles County's Republican Central Committee and another old California friend, who went to Washington in January as Nixon's administrative assistant...