Word: continente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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To Paraguay's Congress, where in April he announced his "aim of perfecting a durable democratic regime." President Alfredo Stroessner, 46, sent a bristling order of dissolution. With that, Stroessner went back to the chancy business of running the last dictatorship on the continent of South America.
JUNE 6, 1944 was a dour, windswept day on the English Channel-and the decisive moment of World War II was hard at hand. The Combined Chiefs of Staff of the U.S. and Britain had issued a directive to Supreme Commander Dwight D. Eisenhower: "You will enter the Continent of...
The Direct Approach. The men who raised the banner of European unity in the years just after World War II had no such subtle process in mind. Pointing to the gutted cities of the Continent as testimony to the folly of unrestrained nationalism, they demanded political unification. Sparkplugged by France...
High overhead, Communist jets traced white contrails in a sky of startling blue. A bare 150 feet away, residents of Communist East Berlin gawked from windows. Just across the border in West Berlin, Publisher Axel C. Springer, 47, last week confidently laid the cornerstone of a $4,700,000, 35...
Popular Sport. Most European stocks do look so attractive that throughout the Continent brokerage houses are becoming as popular as coffee houses. In France, where the De Gaulle government recently liberalized imports and devalued the franc to the free-market rate, the general stock index has jumped 24% in 1959...