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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that Fidel Castro has talked to Vice President Nixon, Secretary of State Herter, 18 Congressmen, has charmed the American Society of Newspaper Editors, and has been interviewed on NBC's Meet the Press [May 4], he has accomplished exactly what he set out to do: get U.S. Government approval and the approval of the people of the U.S. for his coming invasion of Haiti and the Dominican Republic...
Bulldog head set squarely on top of wattled neck and stooped shoulders, massive gold watch chain spread across massive middle, Sir Winston Churchill, 84, came haltingly down the ramp from Columbine III one evening last week at the Military Air Transport Service terminal in Washington. At the bottom of the steps President Eisenhower watched solicitously as he waited for his visitor. Then, with Churchill triumphant, Eisenhower stepped forward and thrust out his hand. "Hello, my friend," he said. "Glad to see you back again." Churchill, noticeably composing himself, replied: "I am indeed glad...
...Texas legislature last week was set to help Favorite Son Johnson's chances by moving the Texas primary (tantamount to election) up from July to May, thereby giving Johnson early opportunity to wrap up another six-year Senate term before the Democratic convention. Fortnight ago the legislature ruled that a candidate could run on Texas' general election ballot for President or Vice President as well as a statewide office (including the office of U.S. Senator from Texas...
Louisiana has called a Governors' race and set Dec. 5 as primary day. And sure enough, Louisiana's third-time (1939-40, 1948-52, 1956-60) Governor Earl Long, 63, has put himself squarely in the running-even though, according to law, he appears to be politically paralyzed...
...prospect of dismantling her costly Army of the Rhine, but would strike France and West Germany as the forerunner to U.S. military withdrawal from Western Europe.) Aware of the West's well-publicized failure to formulate any agreed-upon "fallback" positions, the Soviets could thus hope to set the four Western powers squabbling among themselves...