Word: tripped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Reasons for Trip. On his one previous visit to the U.S., in 1936, Trader Mikoyan studied U.S. consumer industries, took back with him instructions for manufacturing such U.S. novelties as breakfast cereals and ice cream. This time he is interested in more momentous matters. Officially, he will be visiting the U.S. as the guest of Soviet Ambassador Mikhail A. ("Smiling Mike") Menshikov, but the guessing in Washington is that Khrushchev sent his right-hand man to talk to President Eisenhower and top U.S. officials, to sound out the firmness of the U.S.'s determination to stay on in Berlin...
...along, too, De Gaulle made highly effective use of surprise, silence, and silence's sister, the oracular utterance. "I have understood you," he told a wildly cheering crowd during his first trip to Algiers after becoming Premier. Only four months later, when he abruptly ordered all French army officers to resign from the insurrectionary Committees of Public Safety, did the right-wing Europeans of Algiers realize that what he had meant was that he understood them and disapproved. Last week, with almost equal lack of forewarning, De Gaulle suddenly began churning out a series of decrees that he had been...
...Paraná. They saw none of them, and the steep, jungle-tangled Serra dos Dourados mountains in the western part of the state deflected both settlers, missionaries and slave hunters. Nothing more was reported about the primitives until 1906, when a Czech scientist named Albert Fritsch made a field trip into the region and met some comparatively advanced Indians dragging three captives who spoke an unknown tongue. He discovered that the captives called themselves Xetsá (pronounced shee-tahss). He studied their language superficially and then apparently dismissed them as a branch of the well-known Guarani people...
...Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad will cut sleeping-and parlor-car round-trip fares 28% for nine months to see whether lower fares will attract new riders. Sample: Chicago-to-Denver round-trip fare, including Pullman Roomette, will be $84 v. $123 for first-class air travel...
...they painstakingly eliminated in advance some of the hazards that might have tragically marred "Operation Sunshine" the following year. They cruised some 1,400 miles under the polar ice but were trapped more than once in sandwich-close quarters between the massive roof of ice (which on the 1957 trip extended as much as 100 ft. below the surface) and the shallow ocean floor. Once, Anderson nosed his sub to the seemingly ice-free surface but jarred against thin ice and blacked out both his periscopes. A 15-hour repair feat, in a choppy sea and bone-numbing wind, restored...