Word: gifted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Where Are You Going? López Mateos climbed the slippery slopes of politics with the aid of a fine baritone speaking voice, a gift for oratory, a quick wit, and a knack for making close and lasting friendships. At college in Toluca, he was an ardent campus politician and belonged to the Socialist coalition, which at that time was the major opposition to the government's National Revolutionary Party, now the all-dominant Revolutionary Institutional Party (P.R.I.). In 1929 Colonel Carlos Riva Palacio, head of the government party, came to Toluca for a party convention...
...added that the House Committee felt the benefit derived from giving to the charity drive "would be as much as that gained by spending the money in another way." The $100 gift is earmarked for the United Fund...
Despite the Leverett gift, however, the chairmen of the College-wide drive have decided to extend solicitation until Monday, since "only three-quarters of the undergraduate body has been contacted and we are still short of our goal...
...course, one can't do it par excellence on every occasion. What hurts is that the best of Shimizu's work is weakened by the same deficiency. The poetic gift, is at a premium these days. It would be a shame to see Shimizu's very real talents stray along a path of lesser resistance...
...donations, which were collected by student representatives in each hall, ranged from five cents to $40, with the average gift around...