Word: nixons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...else last week, Kubitschek's cable dramatized his strong new stand as a pro-West world statesman. Until recently, he had taken pains to avoid offending his country's politically powerful supernationalists. and his government seemed to be drifting into murky neutralism. But after U.S. Vice President Nixon was stoned in Lima and Caracas, Kubitschek wrote personally to Ike to urge a rebuilding of Pan Americanism. He sponsored an International Investments Conference at Belo Horizonte, accepted resignations of several foot-dragging Cabinet members, replaced them with men dedicated to sensible collaboration with foreign capital...
...teams of Latin American pollsters working for LIFE EN ESPANOL recently queried their way through six capital cities. Carefully gathering answers from every group in the socio-economic spectrum, the pollsters were out to discover just how Latin America feels about the U.S. after the stoning of Vice President Nixon in Lima and Caracas. This week LIFE EN ESPAÑOL (July 28) published the eye-opening results...
...their general objections to U.S. 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...
...think Nixon's trip did more good than harm or more harm than good?" asked the poll takers. In every capital, at least a plurality voted for more good than harm-and in Lima, where stones flew, 72% voted approval of Nixon's visit...
...popularity, were 1) Perry Como, 2) William Holden, 3) Rock Hudson. Tied for fourth place were President Eisenhower and Tab Hunter; Elvis Presley tied Tony Curtis for fifth. Classed together as good No. 6 husbands: Marlon Brando, Jeff Chandler, James Dean, Senator John F. Kennedy, Jerry Lewis, Vice President Nixon. This sort of "romantic cult" nonsense, concluded Jesuit Cervantes, is the basic cause for the weakening fabric of U.S. family life...