Word: best
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...purple traceries, of grapevines. Mexican and U.S. farmers, industrialists and businessmen are laying out factories, hotels, lawns, streets and truck gardens with assembly-line speed. The citizens of Baja California (estimated pop. 550,000) proudly argue that the new state's standard of living is Mexico's best, a boast bolstered by the fact that its minimum legal wage is the country's highest...
...last year he was knighted. He boasts that "the spirit of feudalism that ruled Barbados is as dead as Queen Anne." But with 230,000 people jammed onto an island 14 by 21 miles in size, Barbados is still among the poorer areas of the West Indies. Its best hope: relaxation of immigration bars by other islands once federation begins working. Adams will be among the top three men in the dominant Federal Labor Party, along with Jamaica's Norman Manley and Trinidad's Eric Williams. But he plans to stick to his local job. "If I went...
...geologist who once headed the University of Delaware and later the University of Vermont, Carlson has done his best to give his students a better education. But though he has accomplished much, he has been constantly frustrated by the chronic feud between his trustees and the State Board of Regents. Worse still is a dilemma that has faced S.U.N.Y. all along: Should it try to be a real university, or merely continue to offer fringe programs, while leaving the real job of education to the state's private campuses...
...sang his way to fame with his gutty-voiced, absinthe-flavored readings of such items as See You Later, Alligator (T'es pas tombé sur la tête), and You Left in Your Bobby Socks (T'es partie en socquettes). Now Atlantic has recorded the best of Mac on an album entitled Mac-Kac and His French Rock & Roll. The familiar beat is there, but the lyrics provide a startling illustration of just how differently they order these things in France. Sample: "The Father Superior with haggard eye and gnashing teeth left the refectory screaming...
...Girl and Her Songs (Teddi King; RCA Victor). One of the best singing technicians in the business offers an imaginative tour of love's stormy and placid seasons, in a voice with a fine dramatic range. Teddi's best effort: a refurbished edition of Dorothy Fields's and Jimmy McHugh's Porgy, which here glitters as brightly as Gershwin's more famous exercise on a fellow of the same name...