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...very long situation"--was not without its blessings. Somehow, the show had been divested of all is early advantages, its theatre had become more of a disadvantage than anything else, and, maybe, the situation was just bad enough to make The Light Company Cambridge's newest cause c?...
...into paintings, sculptures and many other knickknacks to decorate the new building. Most of the art is the contemporary abstract kind considered proper by that other Rockefeller institution, the Museum of Modern Art, and runs heavily to framed smudges of color (in David's private washroom, there is a C??zanne lithograph). Few Chase executives try to understand their boss's artistic acquisitions, and his family does not share his tastes. Peggy and the children recently assembled a Rube Goldberg statue from pipes, wrenches, tubes and scrap metal and presented it to David in all solemnity as their own latest...
...world depends." De Gaulle seemed almost relieved when the welcome was over, when he was safely in the presidential limousine, rolling smoothly past the kids with their Easter outfits and their box Brownies, past the fluttering Tricolors?and on to Blair House under a sun as bright as the C??te d'Azur...
More peacefully, but as relentlessly as geometry, the closing circle of Mexican politics was choking off the revolution of C??rdenas. In 1934 he had come into office to establish Mexico's first non-militaristic Government. He began putting his dreams of Utopia into effect by redistributing land to the peasants, nationalizing the railroads, expropriating foreign oil concessions. But his espousal of the little man brought the full power of the militaristic Right against him. As he fought off the Right the militant Left crept in behind him. Vicente Lombardo Toledano, secretary of the CTM (Confederation of Mexican Workers), began...
...Left grew stronger with armed CTM and peasants' militias it became lefter still. C??rdenas' fine dream began to tarnish. Workers started squabbling among themselves. The oil expropriations became a white elephant at home, upset Mexico's international relations. Chicanery as well as well-meaning incompetence shackled C??rdenas' visionary plans...