Word: formals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From Caracas to La Paz last week, red carpets were unrolled, honor guards got busy with spit and polish, ceremonial banquet tables were laid. Reason: a merry-go-round of formal state visits by Latin American chiefs of government. The President of Venezuela visited Lima in June,, and next week the President of Peru will return the courtesy. The President of Bolivia went to Santiago in February, is expected to visit Bogota in September. The President of Chile will visit Bolivia this month. President Gustavo Rojas Pinilla of Colombia landed in Ecuador last week for chats with his neighbor, President...
Search of Heart. Then came the U.S.'s turn. Eisenhower began reading his formal paper prepared by the State Department. Midway, he took off his glasses, laid them on the table, and looked directly at the Russians. He spoke extemporaneously...
...farm, she picked up the autobiography of St. Teresa of Avila, read all night until she had finished it. "This," she said, "is the truth." She was baptized on New Year's Day, 1922, after she proved that she knew Catholic doctrine so well that no formal instruction was necessary...
...Commuter Norman Cousins, editor of the Saturday Review, fired off a formal protest to the Interstate Commerce Commission and the New York Public Service Commission listing six specific complaints against McGinnis' operation of the New Haven. Among the charges: trains are so dangerously crowded that passengers must ride in the vestibules; engineers exceed the speed limits trying to make up time lost in slow loading procedures; McGinnis' claim of 89% on-time performance is untrue as far as commuter trains are concerned. By Cousins' own count, only six of 30 trains were on time during one month...
...Hale, whose study in the American Historical Review is based on an analysis of Hitler's income-tax forms seized in Munich at war's end, Hitler owed the government some $150,000 in 1934, after his first year as Reich Chancellor. In December 1934, without any formal legal action or the knowledge of the German public, Hitler was excused from his back taxes, after that enjoyed royalties on Mein Kampf and his salary as Chancellor tax free...