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...years ago in the time of Dictator Porfirio Diaz. Since then, farm production has risen 23%, population 60%. The bloody revolution begun by mild little Francisco Madero in 1910 cracked the feudal system and released three-quarters of a million peasants in mud-floor serfdom from the grip of a few hundred landowning families. But the revolutionaries themselves lived on and despoiled the country, which never had enough farmland (only 12% potentially arable...
Outside of Marsiaschin's grip on the left guard spot, the starting lien-up is still in a fluid state been though the team has been worlding out for over a month. Taking over at a new school, with material of an unknown quantity, is not the easiest thing for a coach to do, in any event. In Barclay's case it was particularly difficult, for, outside of Mariaschin, John Gantt, and Pete Petrillo, whom he could watch in motion pictures of last year's games, he was starting from scratch...
After the failure of the seaside conference, the extremists began a new wave of terror, attacking track intersections until the country was in the grip of an internal blockade. Haganah countered with an "educational campaign" against Irgun and the Sternists, and actually raided arsenals belonging to the underground to destroy hidden explosives...
...study of blasted lives, and a harsh but not uncompassionate indictment of the ambition that blasted them, John Gabriel Borkman seethes with the fiercely neurotic emotions of deeply frustrated people. Only in his later scenes does Playwright Ibsen lose his grip; the too-symbolic ending points a moral better than it adorns a tale...
...grip which crow-beaked Harry Bridges had fastened on Hawaii (TIME, Nov. 4) was loosened last week. His longshoremen's union called off a strike which for eleven weeks had gripped Hawaii's economy by the throat...