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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...exclusion was, in effect, a good point for the U.S. it left the U.S. free to take its own independent action in connection with Formosa, which it has long recognized as its special responsibility. To make this point clear, Secretary Dulles flew from Manila to Formosa, rode up Grass Mountain to the residence of Chiang Kaishek. There Dulles assured the Nationalist Chinese President that his people did not stand alone. Said Dulles: "The United States is proud to stand by those who, having passed through so many trials, are yet courageously sustained by faith that will not be subdued...
...Huddled with G.O.P. state chairmen from 19 Midwestern and Rocky Mountain states (see The Campaign...
...mile-high Denver one morning last week, the President of the U.S. sat down to have a big helping of politics for breakfast. In the presidential suite of the Brown Palace Hotel, Dwight Eisenhower ate and advised with Republican state chairmen from 19 Midwestern and Rocky Mountain states. The subject under discussion: how to increase the Republican majority in Congress. The breakfast-eaters started from the proposition that the key man in the Republican campaign of 1954 is Dwight Eisenhower. Said Ohio's able Chairman Ray Bliss: "The big problem in our areas is to make certain the people...
...emerald; an engagement ring with a marquise diamond approximately an inch long, half an inch wide; a gold mesh bracelet, a diamond-studded necklace, and a hunting-case wristwatch adorned with seven large diamonds and several smaller ones. More important, Talal bought himself a 20-room mansion on the mountain road to Damascus, which suggested that Mona would not be cooped up all year round in a Saudi Arabian harem...
...Atomic Deposits. For those who want to protect documents and other valuables from atom bombs, the Railway Express Agency has set up a service to seal them in bombproof, ventilated concrete vaults deep inside Iron Mountain, near Hudson, N.Y. Customers pack their possessions in cylindrical metal containers three inches in diameter, one foot long. Rental: $10 the first year, $5 thereafter...