Word: panama
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...PANAMA, April 30--National Guardsmen were ordered to move up to the town of Nombre de Dios today for the first full-scale attack on a band of Cuban-based invaders holed up inside. But they were called back to let a team of neutral observers get in first...
...PANAMA, April 28--Two bearded Cuban officers landed at a remote Panama beach today on a peace mission and contacted a band of invaders from Cuba. The officers immediately began negotiating for the surrender of the invasion force...
...talks took place, there were new reports that more invaders were coming from Cuba. Panama promised to spare the lives of the invaders if they laid down their arms...
Castro denounced the Cubans in Panama as violating his Cuban revolutionary principles and ignoring direct orders to avoid any such involvements. Cuba promised every possible help in halting the invasion that has embarrassed Castro's government...
Maybeck populated the Bay Area with houses, but his best-loved work is the largest pink elephant ever built, San Francisco's towering Palace of Fine Arts. Erected for the Panama-Pacific International Exposition of 1915 and conceived as a mighty Roman ruin, the palace's lofty dome and far-flung colonnades set above a reflecting lagoon are meant to convey, in Maybeck's words, "sadness, modified by the feeling that beauty has a soothing effect." Seen by 10 million visitors over the years, it has become the most popular public monument in California. Today its plaster...