Word: amazon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like many a younger child, the University of California at Los Angeles has long been jealous of its big sister at Berkeley, the University of California. Though U.C.L.A. has sprouted into something of an Amazon itself (present enrollment: 14,983), its graduates think it has sometimes been treated like a gangling adolescent. One graduate gripe: though Berkeley has had a law school for years, U.C.L.A. had none...
...Bulgarie, and armored cars toured the streets below. In the hotel's plush lobbies and corridors, swarthy Albanian colonels conferred importantly with bemedaled Czech generals; Polish officials huddled with thoughtful Hungarians. Vulko Chervenkov, new boss of Bulgaria, walked side by side with Ana Pauker, Stalin's Amazon satrap for Rumania. Over all watched the steady eyes of the Russians sent for the occasion from Moscow. The Cominform was meeting in full conclave. Chief item on the agenda: what to do about Yugoslavia's rebellious Tito...
...four leaders: the Amazon, the Parana, the Madeira, the Puriis...
...People. Brazil's 48 million people are the descendants of Portuguese sugar fazendeiros, African slaves, savage Indians and immigrants from around the world. They include the hard-riding gaúchos of the temperate Rio Grande do Sul pampas; the sickly Indian rubber-gatherers of the steaming Amazon; the sugar-and cocoa-raising nordestinos of the states of Baía and Pernambuco on the Bulge; the driving industrialists of São Paulo...
Alice had earned the job. Under the motherly guidance of Executive Editor Thompson and Editor in Chief Helen Valentine, Seventeen has grown in five years from a gangling kid to something of an Amazon (circ. 1,000,000). Mrs. Thompson and Mrs. Valentine, with an editorial staff of 50 girls and one man (Edwin Miller, the 27 -year-old bachelor movie editor) have turned Seventeen into a moneymaking monthly by taking dead aim on teen-age readers (average...