Word: caste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Guatemala. Last fortnight Guatemala's President Juan Jose Arevalo rose from bed in plaster cast and dressing gown (TIME, Dec. 31) to denounce a fellow revolutionary whom he had dismissed from the Finance Ministry for acts jeopardizing the fruits of 1944's revolution...
Returning veterans who cast an interested eye at the Field Artillery commissions offered by the College's newly revived ROTC unit get special attention from Colonel Mark McClure, head of the Military Science Department and until recently a Brigadier General in command of the 95th Division artillery in France and Germany...
...performs against the backdrop, of a well-proportioned cast. Senator Langdon's genial culture is made to evolve into inbred race hate. Cousin Roy Maxwell, sensitive only to political breezes, declaims the rationale of the modern South to Howard Morrick, enlightened Yankee author, and defender of Nevvy's naturalness, which alone succeeds in surviving its environment. Brett's intelligence and experience with unprejudiced white folk in European towns leads to actions which arouse in his mother, Bella, the Langdon housekeeper, a fearful wrath at his flaunting the law that "White is White, and Black is Black...
Ralph McAllister Ingersoll, away three and a half years from editing Manhattan's pinko tabloid PM, cast a returned-war-veteran's eye on his strike-stricken homeland, bubbled happily in his first editorial: "Everybody else seems terribly upset . . . and I discover I feel fine about it."' Reason for feeling fine: 1) the auto strikers' solidarity; 2) the "exciting new note of unity" in the telephone and wire strikes; 3) the lack of complacency among industrialists; 4) the homesick G.I.s' "refusal ... to be content with the malarkey." Summed up happy Veteran Ingersoll: "I am sorry...
...master of ceremonies was Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz. In the row of admirals' heads in the paneled Navy Department board room, his cotton top stood out like a white flag. While Secretary Forrestal smiled approval, 60-year-old Admiral Nimitz formally presented the new cast of characters now taking over from 67-year-old Admiral King's war-weary team. As things go in the Navy, the accent was decidedly on youth: the new high command averaged five and a half years younger...