Word: strait
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...motion to form a committee to investigate the possibility of forming a new Association newspaper was adopted by a 36 to 2 vote. Rodger H. Strait 3Dv, editor of the former "Scribe", will head the new committee. Strait supported the motion to abolish the newspaper...
...widespread effects. Short-wave communication about the globe was severely crippled, and telephone communications between New York, London and Rome were totally disrupted for several hours. For seven panicky hours the British Admiralty lost contact with the submarine Acheron, which was cruising in the frigid waters of Denmark Strait...
WILLIAM F. STRAIT Lieutenant, U.S.A...
...brief statement to make," he began, "about a matter which I judge to be of current interest." He noted that an article in LIFE, which had said that the U.S. policy of strength had deterred the Communists from full-scale war in Korea, Indo-China and the FormosL Strait "has attracted much comment." He then read a statement...
Seeing Nelly Home. In Buenos Aires, the newspaper Critica dismissed Perón's threats with a question: "Hasn't Panama measured him for a strait jacket yet?" President Pedro Aramburu and his advisers seemed to sense that madman talk by Perón, who is still revered by millions of diehard Peronistas, provided a tailor-made chance to draw a contrast between the erratic ex-dictator and the sober new regime. The government made three moves that sharpened the impression...