Word: southwesters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...banks grow more willing to finance pools as readily as cars, backyard swimming pools are spreading across the rest of the country. Construction in northeast and midwest states (where pools often double as skating rinks in winter) will increase on an average of 70% over last year, and in southwest and mountain states a 61% increase in construction is expected in 1959. A 20-ft. by 40-ft. pool that cost $15,000 before World War II can now be bought...
...seemed to personify the spirit of the week's unified stand against Communist threats: Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. But Dulles needed sympathy less last week, perhaps, than at any time since he turned into Walter Reed Hospital with a recurrence of cancer. Just 840 miles southwest of Washington, he was basking in a hot sun on plush, lush Jupiter Island, Fla., a guest in the vacation home of his good friend Under Secretary of State C. Douglas Dillon. Symbolic items in the Secretary of State's baggage: 1) a flop-brimmed straw hat that "cost about...
...authority on the American Indians of the Southwest and Mexico, Evon Z. Vogt will be professor of Social Anthropology...
...Kissing. From his birth, Romney had little choice but to become a missionary of one kind or another. The grandson of a Mormon who sired 30 children by four wives, he was born into a monogamous family in Colonia Dublan, Mexico, where Mormons from the Southwest had settled 20 years earlier. When George was five, Pancho Villa drove the U.S.-born Mormons out of Mexico, and the family went to Los Angeles. In kindergarten, children taunted him mercilessly with the sneering cry "Mexican!" Said George one day: "Look, if a kitten was born in a garage, would that make...
...reports of Tibetan resistance. Last week the Indian consulate, lying between the Potala and Red headquarters, radioed New Delhi that there was "fighting in the immediate vicinity of the consulate. The situation is tense and rising." Then the radio fell silent. At Gyangtse, a large trading center 100 miles southwest of Lhasa, the citizens attacked the Red Chinese garrison. From Phongdo, the force of Khambas and fighting monks pushed toward the capital. At week's end the Communist-run Lhasa radio failed to come on the air with its noonday newscast; more significantly, the radio carrier wave, which indicates...