Word: ets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...past two years the regime has increasingly used such totalitarian practices as police torture and terrorization of the independent press. Dissident officeholders have been purged. Such opposition leaders as Radicals Ernesto Sammartino and Agustin Rodriguez Araya have been forced into exile (TIME, Oct. 6, 1947 et...
Before the Grail is restored to its keeper, the Prester John of early Christian lore, the reader sees murder done and a black mass sung, right in broad British daylight. In short, he enters the other world of Charles Williams (TIME, Nov. 8 et seq.), the English religious mystic who toward the end of his life (1945) set on paper a series of modern visions which he called novels (All Hallows' Eve, Descent into Hell...
...Founder Wykeham, in fact, specified that his students should be "pauperes et indigentes," and set an upper limit of ?3 6s. 8d. on their annual income, but few real "pauperes" ever got in. For centuries, most of the appointments have gone to the sons of influential fathers. *Another group, the "Founder's Kin," long had special privileges, e.g., they could stay in Winchester until they were 25, but ultimately they became so numerous that the privileges were abolished. Unofficial test of a boy's relationship to Founder Wykeham: crashing a wooden platter down on his head...
...kept control of them through two World Wars and innumerable political upheavals by means of a bewilderingly complex holding company, incorporated in Belgium, called SOFINA (Société Financieère de Transports et d'Entreprises Industrielles)* The value-and power-of SOFINA is Heineman's secret. But its five-year battle with March over Ebro makes E. Phillips Oppenheim's stories read like fairy tales. Says Dannie Heineman, with icy anger: "I'm no angel, but I've always been a builder. Juan March has always grabbed what he wanted. He wanted Ebro...
...power companies, the more important of which include: Campañia Argentina de Electricidad (CADE), which operates light & power plants in the Buenos Aires area; Mexican Light & Power, Ltd.; Belgium's Société d'Electricite de Rosario; Portugal's Compagnies Réunies Gaz et Electricité; and, in the U.S., the Public Service of of Indiana, Inc. and Central Illinois Public Service...