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...accuse the U.S. of neglecting them and leaving them to their own destiny. As he moved through South America last week, President Eisenhower heard some pointed talk about Latin American aspirations and the need for U.S. aid, and he countered with some pointed observations of his own-about the peril of tyranny by subversion and the necessity of helping one's self. All the frank talk, the cheers and the sensation of renewed friendship left no doubt that Ike's remarkable sally into personal diplomacy was having the same telling effect in Latin America that...
With the explosive growth of air travel in the 1950s, the air industry has worked ceaselessly and effectively to make flying safer. But despite every safety precaution, despite every improvement in equipment and procedure, there remains one peril that is a nightmare to all airline men: the possibility of someone, acting out of dementia, desperation or despair, planting a bomb aboard an airplane. In the past decade at least eight planes around the world have been so sabotaged -and at least 99 people died as a result. Last week U.S. authorities were deep in investigations of two more possible bombings...
...Although we consider ourselves free to resume nuclear-weapons testing, we shall not resume it without announcing our intention in advance. During this period . . . the U.S. will continue in its active program of weapons-research development and laboratory-type experimentation." Peril on Path? Thus last week the President resolved the tricky problem of what to do when the test moratorium ran out with the old year. But he postponed into 1960 his decision on what the basic trend of U.S. nuclear policy ought to be -and on this broader decision his advisers were still divided. On the one hand...
...after Ike's arrival in Rome: "We welcome this man who speaks to us with the accent of Kansas of farmers who cultivate fields of wheat as vast as seas, of pioneers who went West not long before his birth. He speaks without rhetoric before the imminent peril as he calls for 'Peace, Peace,' -but not peace for the sake of quiet or lack of principle, but peace in which free men believe...
Logistic Support. In San Miguel, N. Mex., when county officials were on the verge of closing the one-room grade school for lack of students, the hamlet's residents averted the peril by hiring a teacher with three school-age children...