Word: adolfo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...resistance. Even wily, oldtime Yanqui-Baiter Arnulfo Arias, now campaigning for President (TIME, Dec. 8), had plumped for the deal on grounds that the 600 miles of good roads the U.S. was building to link the bases were just what Panama's underdeveloped interior needed. Besides, President Enrique Adolfo Jiménez had the votes to guarantee National Assembly approval for the agreement...
...Adolfo Salazar will speak on Spanish movies set in Cervantes era at 8 o'clock next Friday in the Exhibition Room of Houghton Library. A small choral group will illustrate the lecture by singing a series of ballads as they appear in Cervantes works. The talk will be in Spanish...
...imagination in Berlioz' vein can be confused with eloquence, Shostakovich is an eloquent composer-eloquent perhaps in the manner of the political orator, of the haranguer of the masses, which, indeed, for him seems to be a desirable aim."-Adolfo Salazar, Music in Our Time...
...President's office with an armload of reports and charts, the new boss of Mexico's oil resources. Others were new to the game of politics. Antonio Ruiz Galindo, millionaire manufacturer of office furniture, was made' Minister of National Economy and placed in command of industrialization. Adolfo Orive de Alba, top-notch irrigation engineer, was appointed first Minister of Hydraulic Resources, allocated $200,000,000 and told to get started...
This week Adolfo Orive de Alba, President Aleman's Minister of Hydraulic Resources, is deep in this tierra caliente, finding suitable spots for work camps and hospitals to shelter and care for an army of laborers. Four huge dams will be built across the Papaloapan's tributaries, creating giant lakes in the shadow of snowcapped Orizaba (18,701 ft.). The twisting Papaloapan itself will be dredged to make a ship channel from Tuxtepec, 149 miles from the Gulf. At Chacaltianguis a canal will be built to link the river with swampy lakes farther north and to provide...