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"In the Western Hemisphere, the U.S. is threatened by the high fertility rate in some countries south of the Rio Grande," said Rock. "Mexico and Puerto Rico are good examples," he added.
Secondly, there is la grande pensee of General de Gaulle. Precisely because the citizens and their representatives remain divided, and because the cabinets will in the final analysis continue to depend on Parliament, there must be above all the other institutions of the state "a national arbiter far removed from...
The other tryout was Third Best Sport, by Eleanor and Leo Bayer. (The third best sport turned out to be convention-going, after sex and baseball.) The play is a propaganda comedy about non-conformity, hypocrisy and group-ism. It is an inept concoction of situational cliches, overworn ideas and...
When he took over, Ruiz Cortines inherited a Mexico racked by corruption and given to grandiose projects that gobbled up as much as 40% of the annual budget. Now, the President was leaving a nation troubled by labor strife, including new riots this week that injured scores. But it was...
The Brotherhood of Penitentes is a fossil of medieval Christianity, preserved by the isolation of village culture in the Old World and the New. Public flagellation as penance for sins was common in Europe until the Renaissance; in Spain the custom persisted and was carried into the New World when...