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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...policy toward Latin America, the Latin Americans showed greatest interest in economic matters. Dictator coddling, a charge hurled at Nixon at every stop, was the chief concern of only 7% in Caracas, 5% in Montevideo, 2% each in Buenos Aires and Bogota, 1% in Mexico City and less than half of 1% in Lima...
...freed men were not nearly so carefree as some of those released earlier. They had fought off hordes of flies, had slept on the ground or in hammocks made from dirty burlap bags; more than half had dysentery from the uncertain diet. But they kept up military discipline and set their own order of release: married men first, then men with the lowest rank. As the last helicopter departed, the rebels turned their attention back to the business at hand: a rumored offensive by Dictator Fulgencio Batista...
Santa Barbara. A state teachers college until California took it over in 1944. the campus is half built but rising fast, has a fine academic reputation in spite of distractions, e.g., a mile and a half of college-owned ocean beach. The 2,480 students get burned and learned at the same time, and some of them work their way through school skindiving for abalone...
Kent's heart stopped soon after the heart sac was cut open, but promptly picked up its beat again on being massaged. Dr. Glenn cut through the right pulmonary artery (see diagram) at its beginning near the ventricle, carried the free end around to a hole, half an inch across, cut in the side of the superior vena cava, and stitched it in, like a plumber's elbow joint. Then he tied off the vein near its normal entrance to the auricle. In this way, 30% to 40% of Kent's venous blood (the proportion carried...
Records & Ranges. The new farm prosperity spread across the board. Hardly a crop or an area failed to prosper. Producers of livestock and livestock products took in $9.1 billion in the first half of this year for what actually was a smaller quantity of meat, poultry and dairy products than they sent to market in January-June 1957. Even the surplus-ridden wheat, cotton, corn and other crop producers managed to boost sales by 10% to $4.7 billion. In some states the increase in farmers' cash receipts was nearly 100%. Texas farmers, from January through May, took...