Word: high
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which had the brightest holidays since the war, with gay, Oriental Santa Clauses smiling in front of well-stocked department stores. But many a Japanese mother pulled her child away from the images of Santa "Kurosu" and from the store counters because she could not afford to pay the high prices for the fine new wares. "Receiving gift from complete stranger," muttered a Japanese artist last week, "teaches biggest lesson of unselfishness...
...disrespect" to the President. Two former Radical deputies, Ernesto Sammartino and Agustín Rodríguez Araya, previously ejected from the Chamber, had set him an example by fleeing to Uruguay (TIME, Oct. 10). While police searched 64 public establishments and private homes (including those of two high-ranking army officers), Cattáneo gave them the slip in the middle of a downtown Buenos Aires traffic jam. At week's end he, too, apparently was safe in Montevideo. The grapevine reported that he was keeping under cover there to avoid embarrassing the Uruguayan government...
...Raffles. By offering adequate salaries, a decided innovation in Mexican education, Garza put together a top-grade faculty. From the beginning, entrance requirements were high and student charges low (a top of $20 a month for tuition, $60 for room and board), with plenty of scholarships available to qualified applicants from anywhere in Mexico...
...abstract wing of the show included some startlingly original pictures. Morris Kantor's Lonely Bird knit the shapes of buildings and trees together with looping lines and high-keyed colors, that were all his own. In Lee Catch's dark little Fruit Boat, with its cold blaze of lights seen across the water, abstraction and representation were happily merged. Catch's painting was one of the simplest and smallest on display, but it had size...
Officers are selected from the ranks of the soldiers and are trained for nine months at one of the army's four schools. They must be high-school graduates. Courses are short on arts but long on fundamentalism, homiletics and crowd psychology. One of their textbooks is the army's Orders & Regulations, which contains advice on how to handle toughs ("He should let them see that they have not worn out his love . . ."), how to conduct "Hallelujah Windup" sessions, how to select a wife or husband. Officers are not allowed to marry outside the army...