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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...many to so few." Thus, 19 years ago, Winston Churchill hailed the pilots of the R.A.F.'s Spitfires and Hurricanes, which day after nightmare day in the summer and autumn of 1940 rose up to defy the waves of German bombers boring in on Britain. And ever since the war, on the third Sunday in September, Britain has commemorated The Few with an R.A.F. flypast over London. Traditionally, one Spitfire and one Hurricane have led the way for a formation of the modern jets that have replaced them...
...broke the Roman Catholic Church's vast temporal powers. Not destroyed was a great religious hunger. Last week in Honduras, a Liberal President, Ramón Villeda Morales, was treating the republic to the greatest wave of Catholic revivalism that the tiny, primitive country (pop. 1,800,000) ever...
Meeting in Washington, representatives of the world's major coffee areas agreed on the first export quota plan ever to include Africa as well as Latin America. Latin Americans, citing a world market of about 39 million bags v. production of about 51 million, wanted the Africans to join them in last year's pact, but the Africans were more interested in bigger markets than in price. Brazil's selling blitz cut sharply into African sales, persuaded Africans to sign...
...demanding editor, a good reporter or photographer, haunted by the thought of being scooped, will use any trick of brain or brawn that he can devise. When more than 300 reporters and photographers are thrown together to cover one of the biggest stories any of them ever covered, all the tricks piled one on another can produce a near riot. Last week, as the U.S. press covered Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev's tour of the U.S., that is precisely what happened...
...extraordinary detail, including pictures of Mrs. Khrushchev-a woman in whose existence Red papers previously betrayed only a passive interest, or none at all. Last week Pravda (circ. 5,500,000), the official party organ, topped all the sensational journalism by publishing the first cartoon of a Soviet leader ever to appear in the Russian Press...