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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Washington the Organization of American States met, listened to a Panamanian plea for help against "international pirates," sent an investigating team. While patrol boats and planes contributed by the U.S., Ecuador and Colombia scouted the Caribbean and the Panamanian coast for signs of a rumored reinforcement fleet, Invader Chief Cesar Vega met the Cuban officers and the OAS negotiators, and surrendered. Cuba was expected to ask Panama to give the invaders leniency, a quality unknown to the Castro firing squads at home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PANAMA: End of an Invasion | 5/11/1959 | See Source »

Assembled in the capital for a "Life with Father" luncheon at the Women's National Press Club and a visit to the White House, nine of the 20 living children of U.S. Presidents (plus other descendants of chief executives stretching back to John Adams) dropped some light-hearted footnotes to history. Among the Presidents subjected to filial gossip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, may 11, 1959 | 5/11/1959 | See Source »

...Wili from her tomb to dance once more with her love, gave Ulanova the opportunity to display the wonderful floating motions that sometimes seem to have her drifting soft as eiderdown before an unfelt breeze. In the presence of a performance as great as Ulanova's, perhaps the chief wonder of the evening was that the rest of the company managed to shine with a brilliance all their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Ballerina Assoluta | 5/11/1959 | See Source »

...appears at the Bolshoi Theater not more than three times a month but invariably packs the house with VIPs when she does. Married to Vadim Rindin, chief designer of the Bolshoi, she lives in a four-room apartment on the ninth floor of a building overlooking the Moscow River and the Kremlin. Although she earns an estimated $25,000 a year as leading ballerina of the Bolshoi, she maintains no country dacha, but drives a six-cylinder Volga, which she hopes to turn in someday for a larger car ("I dream," she says, "about its automatic shift...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Ballerina Assoluta | 5/11/1959 | See Source »

Sundae Punch. In Ocean Ridge, Fla., told to get a permit or stop vending on the Boynton Inlet docks, Ice Cream Peddler C. R. Wilson threw a left jab, broke the police chief's nose in four places...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, may 11, 1959 | 5/11/1959 | See Source »

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