Word: ruggeder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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¶ Dispatched, on a rugged (two-month), wide-ranging (up to 18-nation) Mideast mission, Democrat James P. Richards, 62, longtime (23 years) South Carolina Congressman and former chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, who retired in January, was promptly named by Ike as a special adviser on Mideast...
Rugged, tall (5 ft. 11 in.), plainspeaking, Magsaysay was indefatigably energetic and incorruptibly honest ("My parents taught me to be a good Christian. Do you know of any good Christian who is dishonest?"). He was a blacksmith's son, who came out of the Zambales mountains to work as...
Lawyer Fidel Castro's revolt against the regime of President Fulgencio Batista is the sort of affair that appeals more to young zealots than to common sense. Holed up in eastern Cuba's rugged Sierra Maestra range, Castro has sniped away for three months at overwhelming army forces...
Unexcelled Understanding. That the U.S. has been able to muster up and manage such a huge and sustained military power, and thereby give weight to U.S. diplomacy, is due largely to the happenstance at the right place and the right time of Arthur Radford and his brood of new leaders...
Months of Violence. His mind was obviously on Cuba's current, running-sore revolt. Though the dictator's army is well equipped, it so far has been ineffectual against the kind of "internal conflict" that has plagued the island for nearly three months. Bomb-bursts terrorize Havana almost...