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Paint Every Two Years. For all its fiscal stability, Portugal is still a poor country where initiative withers in the gloom of resignation. The people who grow Portugal's olives, make its port, strip its cork, net and pack its sardines, mine its rich wolfram ore deposits, live in limpidly beautiful villages with white-painted cottages (a 1949 Salazar decree requires a new paint job every two years) amidst some of the world's grandest scenery. But Dictator Salazar has never balanced his people's household budgets. Poverty and disease are widespread. Illiteracy...
This week, as election day approached, there was deep gloom among California Republicans. Putting it mildly, G.O.P. National Committeeman A. Ron Button said: "With two good Republicans running against one good Democrat, the chances of a Republican winning are seriously impaired...
...Salzburg Seminar in American Studies is one of the few rays of hope in the gloom of world tension and misunderstanding. It is a real, positive and dynamic force the effect of which has been felt in every corner of free Europe. Its prestige on the continent is revealed by even the most cursory examination into the intensity of the competition among European intellectuals for the opportunity to attend one of its sessions...
Nice to See You. As the zero hour approached, friends pleaded and entreated with Marc to change his mind, to no avail. On the morning of Sept. 28, gloom hung like a pall in the bar of Le Practic. Even VoVo lay silent, crouched in a corner. Then someone, peering from the window, cried, "Why, there's Marc now!" And down the street, wearing the neat, pin-stripe suit that fitted him so snugly, came Marc. "I've decided to give myself a reprieve," he beamed. "Beefsteak with pepper, please, Madame. Well, it's nice...
...atmosphere of gloom has fallen over he Senate office of Joseph McCarthy. The television lights are still blazing, the investigators working as hard as ever, but the Senator's Hooper-rating is down. And like the skilled public entertainer he is, McCarthy knows this fact is due to a lack of material...