Word: ended
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week's end word came that General Ayub, in flying the 1,000 miles across India that divides West and East Pakistan, will make what is officially described as a "fuel stop" at the Indian capital of New Delhi on Sept. 1, and will have time enough for a chat with India's Nehru, the first meeting of the two heads of state. One item that may well be discussed: General Ayub's suggestion last spring that Pakistan and India get together for the joint defense of the Indian subcontinent, an idea that Nehru-confronted with...
Duvalier had overreached himself; as the Vatican hinted at automatic excommunication and Catholic Haiti throbbed with unrest, the President backed off. At week's end the regime announced "the arrest is halted'' but blustered that "the President will not permit anyone to discredit the government...
...seemed likely that Brazil would deport him posthaste. Indicted in Manhattan on 69 counts of grand larceny and held on suspicion of entering Brazil on a false passport, the man accused of stealing $14 million worth of stock from a pair of U.S. companies appeared certain to end up inside a U.S. courtroom, even though the U.S. and Brazil do not have an extradition treaty...
...Manhattan's bustling Fifth Avenue last week when a taxicab, brakes gone, rolled into the intersection, plowed into Carol and two lady companions. Catapulted into the air, the marquesa came down against the cab's windshield, was indecorously given a short free ride. At week's end, with minor leg injuries, she had left a Manhattan hospital, counted herself "lucky to be alive...
...wife) before he tackles a foreign assignment. Aims: a working knowledge of the new culture and language, an ability to explain and defend the U.S. abroad, expert tutoring from State Department officials. "Long overdue," said Republic Steel (and B.C.I.U. Policy Board) Chairman Charles M. White. "It could mean the end of the overseas misfit...