Word: jose
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Batlle is Uruguay's most honored name. Jose Batlle y Ordonez, as President in 1907, astounded Uruguay, and set the democratic pattern that has prevailed ever since, by peaceably turninsr over office to his elected successor. The great man favored his nephew Luis over his own sons, and passed along to Luis the political know-how that made him a Congressman at 25. In 1946, before Uruguay's 1951 adoption of a council as its executive, he was elected Vice President, gaining the top office (and the nickname "Trumancito") when the President died a year later...
Special Blend. True to his background. Luis Batlle Berres carries on the special blend of liberal politics distilled by Uncle Jose. "Batllismo" is a pragmatic mixture of the welfare state and anticlericalism, seasoned with dignified friendship for the U.S. Under Batllismo, Uruguay disestablished religion so thoroughly that Christmas is now officially called "Family Day." The state runs banking, meatpacking, and fishing, sells insurance, operates the telephones, and provides free medical care and education (for qualified students) through university...
Dorothy Dandridge's Carmen has her best moments in the Habanera aria where she establishes the brand of sultriness which is to drive men mad. Miss Dandridge seems a little relenting for this demoniac task but her equipage is more than adequate. Harry Bellafonte, as Joe--nee Don Jose--relies too much on eye-popping and nerve-straining, emotional displays which the Cinema-Scopic screen shoves into the realm of the ludicrous...
...last week alarming rumors of troop movements beyond the borders filled San Jose newspapers. Costa Rica braced itself for invasion by dissident filibusterers (TIME, Nov. 29). But through it all, President Jose ("Pepe") Figures kept cool, calm and laconic. Said his Saturday official communique: "No invasion is expected this weekend...
...reporter from the Wellesley News was interviewing Don Jose. She was very excited, she said, to be able to talk to a real live opera star...