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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reply to the U.S. protest, Cuban Minister of State Raúl Roa delivered an 18-page "white paper," rewriting history, charging economic aggression and warning that Cuba will buy arms and planes "from whoever may be willing to supply them," i.e., Russia, if need be. He patted Cuba's new government on the back for "unequaled sportsmanship" in remaining friendly to the U.S. people, recounted "sacrifices" Cuba had made, e.g., selling sugar at low prices to the U.S. during two world wars. He brushed off Cuba's expropriation of U.S. property as involving only "transitory interests...
...Mexico, have friendly and responsible governments and people. Such authentically liberal chiefs of state as Alberto Lleras Camargo of Colombia and Rómulo Betancourt of Venezuela are increasingly wondering about Castro. Betancourt fortnight ago barred a visit by the Cuba revolution's foremost proCommunists: Majors Raúl Castro and Ernesto ("Che") Guevara...
Into Bixler's shoes this month steps Colby's Dean of Faculty Robert E. L. Strider, 42, who taught English at Connecticut College before switching to Colby in 1957. More "intellectual curiosity" is new President Strider's aim. It would not have been possible if Colby had not risen to the quality in J. Seelye Bixler. Colby no longer gets its students mainly from Maine; it is drawing bright applicants from all over the East. Says outgoing President Bixler, who will teach religion at the University of Hawaii next year: "They aren't all topnotch students...
...that they become centers of conversation and discussion rather than areas where people sit drugged by canned entertainment." As for the name "buttery," Saarinen made clear that he was not thinking of dairy products, pointedly cited the Oxford Dictionary derivation: "Buttery, sb. ME. (app. a. OF. boterie - bouteillerie:-late L. botaria, f. bota, var. of butta cask, bottle; see BUTT...
Inheritance Tax. In Los Angeles, Mary L. Hoffman, 48, asked for a divorce from Husband No. 2 because he beat her with a jockey whip, a souvenir from Husband...