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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...meeting of rice growers denounced the reform as uneconomic; Pinar del Río landholders pledged themselves "to defend our property, acquired by the efforts, battles and privations of years." Five Havana newspapers criticized the reform. Avance noted that the regime could no longer "dust off that celebrated little word 'counterrevolutionary' for everyone who dissents from official opinion...
...sponsored an expedition to South America in search of the world's largest ant (longer than 1 in.), underwrote a dozen other scientific projects around the globe, printed 17.5 million maps, and gained 125,000 members, to bring total circulation to 2,440,000. The Magazine (a word customarily capitalized by the society) sends 849 copies to Uganda and Kenya, 57 to Broken Bow, Neb., 73 to North Borneo, and one to Hunza, a Central Asian state so remote that the Magazine each month must be carried 12,000 miles by boat, train, plane, Jeep and native runner...
...crucified in here by dirty innuendoes." The Blondie v. Blackie battle will continue until all mail ballots can be counted. In the meantime, Senator John McClellan confirmed that his Labor Rackets Committee has been taking a look at A.G.V.A. For the moment, Crusader Singleton seemed to have the last word. Said she about her opponents: "I have a national reputation as a housekeeper, but I resent having to clean out their kind...
...press a button when a red light flashed. First explanation was that the reaction instrument failed to work. Then it was explained that last-minute tests of the button circuit showed that it was setting up interference in other circuits and it had therefore been turned off. Last week word leaked out that neither explanation was correct. Truth was that Able was a substitute off the space-monkey bench...
...thought, but the Russians refused to increase the number of detection stations the U.S. had first proposed. Since then, U.S. efforts have been directed at discovering means to improve the sensitivity of detection with the stations proposed. Last week, as negotiators prepared to resume the suspended talks at Geneva, word leaked of a report submitted to President Eisenhower which concludes that U.S. seismologists have achieved considerable success. Though the report itself is still secret, one major improvement has been sacrificed by its inventors-Paul W. Pomeroy and George H. Sutton of Columbia University's Lamont Geological Observatory...