Word: latin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Latin Requirement Dropped...
Changed Times. By the time the San Francisco Conference met in 1945, the line was changing. Nelson Rockefeller's immoderate success at cajoling Latin American delegates into a voting bloc gave rise to Soviet-American asperities. Just then three Soviet diplomats from Latin America paid Molotov a flying visit. It was soon clear what they had been told: Latin America's Commies soon rediscovered "American imperialism," began to line up an anti-American front-which could be useful when the Soviets bargained with the U.S. at the peace table. It led to strange friendships. Example: Argentina...
...Because Latin America is bedeviled with penury and privilege, Communists can make first-class capital from the contrast, a job in which they are expert. Thus, when closing a deal with a dictator, they are careful to extract at least some paper concessions to labor. And with social demagoguery becoming fashionable among Latin strong men, such transactions are readily concluded. Result: waxing Communist strength...
...Disinherited. The one significant trend in Latin America today is the crumbling of social oligarchies as the disinherited elbow into the political arena. Hidebound regimes can resort only to repression to conjure the Communist menace (in Brazil this week the Army proclaimed an anti-Communist week). But social-minded democratic regimes, that could offer the masses an outlet for their aspirations, had less cause for alarm...
Though critics accuse Stephens girls of spending more time on their lipstick than on their Latin, amiable Dr. Wood has built the college from a 1912 enrollment of 52 (and a $100,000 deficit) into a thriving academy that picks & chooses its lucky girls. Stephens has had such attractions as 75-year-old Maude (Peter Pan) Adams as a dramatics teacher. Talent scouts-who are called "admissions counselors"-give prospects the onceover, report (among other things) on their "comeliness" and home-town popularity. Stephens prefers not to waste its makeup, clothing and budget clinics, its courses in nutrition and home...