Word: nationalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...proposal for ending such threats: a revival of the OAS's Inter-American Peace Commission, with power to investigate trouble on the spot. Formed after the 1940 foreign ministers' meeting at Havana, the peace committee was crippled in 1956 by an amendment that required both the accuser nation and the accused to agree to an investigation. The renewed committee will eliminate that hobble...
...Quito (alt. 9,000 ft.) one cool morning last week, salvos of artillery and clanging bells from 150 churches awakened the capital and nation. People poured into the winding streets, cheered 6,000 parading soldiers and 25 stunting jets. President Camilo Ponce Enríquez attended a Te Deum in the 412-year-old cathedral, reviewed goose-stepping cadets, and recalled for assembled foreign diplomats and Houses of Congress a day in August 1809-the hour of "greatest Ecuadorian glory...
...years after that, the generals, the bankers and Liberals gave Ecuador "chocolate prosperity," based on rich cacao plantations. Paris became the mecca of the planters, while back home the nation and the people lost ground, literally, to grabby neighbors: 26,000 sq. mi. to Brazil in 1904; 62,000 sq. mi. to Colombia in 1916; 79,000 sq. mi. to Peru in 1942, at gunpoint. By 1949, the nation had tried 15 constitutions, 44 presidents, only 10 of whom lasted out full terms...
...Force fired an Atlas ICBM 5,000 miles down the Atlantic range from Cape Canaveral. The third successful Atlas shot in four weeks, the missile achieved "most of its objectives," helped offset the string of five failures that had put the nation's primary ICBM weeks behind schedule. Now, Air Force men say they hope to make the bird operational next month...
Through the House Ways & Means Committee last week rode a bill to save the nation's $41 billion, 41,000-mile highway-building program from skidding to a halt. The committee, which ten times has vowed never to boost the federal gasoline tax, changed its mind; it approved a 1? hike to 4? a gallon, effective for 22 months from Sept. 1 to June 30, 1961. The lopsided vote (16 to 9) marked a partial victory for the Administration; it has championed a fiveyear, 1½? boost, bucked a congressional bond-floating plan that would have added huge interest...