Word: fashion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Program. One man with a program is President Pedro Aramburu, who pushed through the assembly plan in hopes that the group will be elected in orderly fashion July 28 and get to work Sept. 1 on an overhaul of the constitution. The Aramburu regime wants 1) a one-term limit for Presidents, 2) curbs on the President's power to legislate by decree when the Congress is adjourned, 3) repeal of the President's right to replace provincial governors at will, and 4) a stronger civil service system. Such a document, says he, would be "a death certificate...
...carpet" and "disintegrating with boredom." Jane McArthur brings sparkling eyes, a beautiful pony-tail coiffure and the buoyancy of Susan Strasberg to the part of the 20-year-old niece. As the elder niece Eva, Monica Lovett shows her inward sadness and disillusionment in good Donna Reed fashion. Lance Cunard and Dalila Mockapetris fill out smaller roles...
...from the U.S., out of profitable businesses. He sends his representatives to make what is often a scrupulously fair offer; the victims accept rather than face the tax and regulatory troubles that might follow refusal. Trujillo's cement, beer and electric-power monopolies were all acquired in this fashion, and he has nearly completed control of the island's biggest business-sugar. Most recent big U.S. firm to get out: the West Indies Sugar Co., for $36 million...
...formal pontifical address. For the first time since the Russian revolution a group of Russian tourists visited St. Peter's Basilica while the Pope was carried through the aisles in his shoulder-borne chair (they disappeared before the apostolic benediction). And for the first time women's fashions received smiles rather than censure from the Vatican. In receiving some 200 designers, models, salesgirls and seamstresses of Rome's top high-fashion house, Fontana, Pius XII talked a language understood from Rome's Via Condotti to Manhattan's Fifth Avenue in commenting on one of Fontana...
...blasts U.S. foreign policy, grows unexpectedly lyrical about traveling U.S. businessmen ("these Eds and Harrys and Bills are America") and believes that individual Americans must go out in great numbers as lay missionaries to practice the American Faith. Concludes Wylie: "And hear this: Everyone who goes forth in that fashion will be welcome. For I have looked into a million brown, beseeching eyes, and in all I saw the light of liberty, here dim but there radiant. And all those eyes implored me to tell...