Word: minors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gilded Bottoms. With the economy of the Good Neighbor thus bolstered, Mike Alemán was ready to see more of the U.S. Behind him was only one minor incident to disturb hemispheric solidarity. At a high-brass dinner in the Mexican Embassy, freshly applied gilt had come off the chairs onto the formal bottoms of such U.S. dignitaries as Senators Vandenberg and Connally, Secretary of Labor Lew Schwellenbach...
...minor revelation took place last week. The end of the Moscow Conference provided it. At last even the dullest U.S. citizen was made to realize the exasperating difficulty and the aggravating exhaustion of dealing with the Soviet Government. The realization marked the end of another phase of U.S. foreign policy. Now the question became: "What does the U.S. do next...
...Only minor casualties resulted. But Monarchist Roberto Bencivenga, who had been struck on the back of the neck with a club, posted a notice on the Assembly's bulletin board: "I challenge the unknown hero who struck me from behind to meet me face to face...
Astronomers throughout most of the world got that frustrated feeling last week over a bit of news that plodded, with maddening deliberation, out of Russia. According to V. O. Fesenkov, chairman of the Meteorite Committee of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Science, a ""minor planet" landed on eastern Siberia last Feb. 12. The fragments of iron, nickel and cobalt were said to have smashed through the soil, penetrated the bedrock, and left several dozen craters-the biggest one 75 feet in diameter...
What hit Siberia was probably a wandering meteorite, rather than a "minor planet" belonging to the sun's very orderly family. If it had fallen anywhere else, the world's astronomers would have pounced on it before the crater was cold. They could only hope that Soviet scientists were making accurate, if tardy observations...