Word: tripped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Stevenson, the trip around California was the jog of a man running well ahead. He went to bean dinners, box suppers and strategy lunches. At Sacramento he was serenaded to the tune of Love and Marriage with...
...inland plateau state of Minas Gerais, Diamantina was a rich, bustling city of 40,000 inhabitants. A local diamond magnate even had an artificial lake and several miniature ships built, so that his mulata mistress could ease her nostalgia for the sea without making the three-week muleback trip to Rio. By the time Juscelino Kubitschek was born, Sept. 12, 1901, the synthetic sea had long since vanished, along with the diamonds, and hillside Diamantina had shrunk into an uneventful, cobble-streeted town with a population of less than...
Practical Goals. With his inauguration assured, Kubitschek went off on a hurried, three-week airborne tour of the U.S. and Europe, to win friends and stir up foreign interest in Brazil's vast problems and opportunities. The trip also served the useful purpose of gaining added prestige for Kubitschek, and giving Brazilians a chance to catch their breath and reflect on what manner of man they had chosen. Even his supporters are likely to find him something of a novelty. Brazil has had generals, statesmen and intellectuals for Presidents, but never before a businessman type like Juscelino Kubitschek...
...Pacific near the U.S. West Coast. The second followed a sinuous course, cruising southeast from Japan, passing south of Midway Island, then veering north to pass 900 miles north of Hawaii. It entered the U.S. near the Oregon-California boundary and finally landed near Jackson, Miss. The whole trip (roughly 10,000 miles) took three days and two hours. The balloon's maximum speed when pushed by the high-altitude jet stream was 200 m.p.h. The third balloon cannot be located because of instrument failure, but the next four were launched successfully. When last reported, they were spread...
...chief executive. Randall has been devoting his great gifts to a crusade for freer international trade. He was head of President Eisenhower's 17-man Commission on Foreign Economic Policy, which in 1954 got Congress to take a few steps forward. Randall's latest job: a flying trip to Turkey as the President's special consultant to help a stout ally make economic sense. Inland's new boss: President Joseph L. Block, the founder's grandson, who has been running the company since...