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...voters were dissatisfied with anything, said New Jersey's Republican Senator Alexander Smith, also a stout internationalist, they were "dissatisfied with the one-sided conduct of foreign affairs." It was the Republican 80th Congress-"the no-good, do-nothing Congress," Harry Truman called it-which had passed the Truman Doctrine (Greek and Turkish aid), the Marshall Plan and the Vandenberg Resolution, which inspired the North Atlantic Treaty...
...space salesman with TIME International, reasoned that U.S. companies with Latin American trade were the logical supporters of such a venture. He not only persuaded them to take ads, but to put up most of his $750,000 initial capital. As editor, Barlow hired Iowa-born, Spanish-speaking Edwin Stout, onetime assistant managing editor of Newsweek and Quick...
...Editor Stout covered world events with a special eye to Latin interests: a two-page lead on Puerto Rico's revolt and the attempted assassination of President Truman, a roundup of the Holy Year in Rome, a feature on the Spanish navy. But he also gave full accounts of the war in Asia, plenty of cheesecake, an updating on television and flying saucers. Editorially, Vision promised not to "take the side of any single country . . . or of any internal group of any nation...
...varsity offense experienced considerable difficulty penetrating a stout freshman line, making most of its long gains on passes...
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