Word: landed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Best known for his successful campaign to push through Italy's liberal land reform law, Segni in 1955 put together a Cabinet that lasted longer (22 months) than any since the heyday of the late Alcide de Gasperi. This time, with a Cabinet of Christian Democrats only, he hopes to be invested with the help, or the helpful abstention, of all Italy's right-wing parties, including the Liberals, Monarchists, and neoFascists...
...were the easy, automatic antidotes to backwardness and poverty that they are often assumed to be, mineral-rich Bolivia (pop. 3,300,000) should be a paradise. The bloody uprising of 1952 led Bolivia into the world's most comprehensive social security, illiterate Indians got the vote and land, the coup-prone army got abolished, and the mines that enriched tin barons of old got taken over by the government. The U.S. chipped in $129 million in aid during the next six years-more Yankee aid dollars per Bolivian than for any other people on earth...
Perkin Elmer Corp. of Norwalk, Conn. Each "eye" is 3 in. in diameter but weighs only 3.5 oz. The telescopes are not producing photographic images, but are capable of detecting contrasts of light (clouds are usually brighter than land, land brighter than oceans...
...American manager protested publicly, he noted that only New York, of all the cities on the tour (the group has already played Boston and Philadelphia), was affronted by authenticity. After the U.S. tour ends, the African dancers expect to go back to their villages, where they hope to buy land with their ballet earnings and live untroubled by license commissioners...
Roly-poly M. (for Marion) Penn Phillips, 70. claims he has sold more parcels of land (an estimated 100,000) than any other man alive. What is more remarkable is that most of the land was among the most forsaken and forbidding in the U.S.: the western desert, burned by searing sun and swept by fierce sand storms. Phillips and the 100 land development companies he heads have been prime movers in the great California desert boom. Once a death trap to pioneers, the desert's rock and sand wastes, with their harsh beauty, dry, pollen-free...