Word: southeasterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Southeast Asia. The President underlined the U.S.'s long-standing belief in independence for properly prepared colonies by deputizing Vice President Richard Nixon to be in Manila July 4 to attend the tenth-anniversary celebration of the Republic of the Philippines. The U.S. is expected next week to offer a grant of $35 million in economic aid to neutral Indonesia-about one-twentieth the sum sent in fiscal 1956 to allied South Korea, about one-sixth the U.S. Mutual Security budget for allied South Viet...
...goings of scores of aircraft. Shortly after 12:30 a.m., the routine broke: an LAV (for Linea Aeropostal Venezolana) Super Constellation, droning southward from Idlewild across the black Atlantic toward Caracas, was in trouble. Her position: 38° 10 min. north, 72° 08 min. west (160 miles southeast of the New Jersey coast). "Returning direct to New York," said the crisp message. "Unable to maintain 10,000 ft." The trouble was spelled out: the Constellation's left inboard engine was out of control, could conceivably shake the engine loose from its mount. Veteran Pilot Luis F. Plata...
...boob, Dante . . . the man hasn't the slightest idea of sentence structure or paragraphing." Angoff drops an amusing footnote to the famed "Hatrack" episode in which Mencken got himself arrested in Boston for peddling an issue of the Mercury, banned for its story, by Herbert Asbury, of a southeast Missouri prostitute. Mencken was so afraid of losing the magazine's mailing privilege that he yanked the next issue's lead article, "Sex and the Co-Ed," and substituted "On Learning to Play the 'Cello...
...pill circuit in the Southeast has cooled considerably as a result of the drive, but the FDA is not kidding itself: the dangerous racket persists elsewhere, may be spreading. Even if a half-emptied bottle of co-pilots is found in the pocket of a driver who has been killed by driving his truck off the road, it is usually impossible to prove cause and effect. But traffic authorities and truck companies agree that this is a likely result when drivers dose themselves with bennies to stay awake while they burn up the roads, day and night, without rest. Many...
...Southeast Asia, his SEATO is a defense treaty minus most nations in Southeast Asia. It disregards facts which Indo-China should have demonstrated--that Communism in that part of the world must be fought with something in addition to rifles, that fear of European colonialism often blinds Asians to the new colonialism of China. Moreover, by arming Pakistan, Dulles has upset the balance of power between India and Pakistan, and has forced Indian neutralism into a regrettable anti-U.S. attitude...