Word: tripped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Thus, when the plane landed (with one ailing engine), the Vice President of the U.S., already sweltering in his formal attire, and his summer-clad wife debarked into sizzling sunshine, shook hands all around. After the greetings they stepped quickly to an air-conditioned Cadillac for the 50-mile trip to the capital of Monrovia. The new comfort did not last; the car's air conditioning broke down, and as he sped through clouds of heavy red dust, Nixon sweated behind rolled-up windows...
...years before mating. But every April the flock flies off to breeding grounds near Canada's Great Slave Lake-all except one loner that, for reasons that baffle ornithologists (and possibly other whooping cranes), stayed on at Aransas last year. On the flight north and the return trip to Aransas in the fall, a few whooping cranes get shot every year by hunters. As a result, the species hovers perilously close to the vanishing point. The Aransas flock numbered 34 in 1950, and 28 last year...
...positive contribution to peace and stability." His words were a little optimistic for an organization whose initials may sound like NATO, but unlike NATO is only a paper pact without an armed force of its own. More impressive than Dulles' words is the fact of his strenuous trip, meant to show that despite all of the demands of Europe and the Middle East, Asian defense rates high in the U.S. estimation. Just how high can be measured better in figures than in words: Asia has now become far and away the principal field for U.S. overseas aid. Evidence...
Eighteen Players on Trip...
Among the others on the trip were Dean Watson (along as an "observer"), and Duke Nelson, Middlebury hockey coach and a member of the Eastern NCAA Selection Committee...