Word: blight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Galo Plaza Lasso, 53, onetime University of California fullback, who won the presidency in 1948. The secret ingredient is democracy, both of thought and action. Coupled with the brains to take advantage of Ecuador's rich soil, it brought the boom. As the dread Panama disease, a killing blight, ravaged older banana plantations through Central America, Galo Plaza spent every dollar his government could spare to open up the virgin coastal plain, where rich topsoil lay three feet thick. In ten years Ecuador built 1,600 miles of road. United Fruit opened a 7,000-acre plantation. Poor settlers...
...have hordes of loyal fans; both draw moonfaced characters; both go by a single name. There ends the resemblance between Belgium's Herge and France's Sine, two of Europe's finest cartoonists. To win an audience, Herge sees mostly the sweetness, Sine sees mostly the blight...
Dawn's Early Blight. In Naples, a watchmaker applied for a patent on an alarm clock for stubborn sleepers which, if not turned off after the first normal rings, starts an electronic tape featuring the continuous honking of a car horn, the prolonged barking of a dog, several pistol shots followed by a cannon's boom...
...lawyer for Mexican oil firms, who struck it rich with his own fields, bitterly anti-progressive-education theorist, who last year (TIME, March 4, 1957) founded a school on his Sharon, Conn, estate, to produce an intellectual elite (mostly his own grandchildren) who would be safeguarded from "the blight of liberalism and Communism"; in Manhattan...
Planners have long known that a far better answer to downtown blight is to attract higher-income families back to town. Many cities have pondered how to do this, and some have tried. In one of the best efforts so far, Detroit last week opened the first unit of Lafayette Plaisance University City, an all privately financed and operated $30 million development of 1,029 rental and 938 cooperative apartments in a onetime slum area. When completed. University City, only half a mile from the heart of downtown Detroit, will occupy a 55-acre park with six 22-story glass...