Word: latins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Miss Phillips was the associate head and teacher at the Brearley School in New York City until her retirement last year. Miss Nichols is now a teacher of English at Girls' Latin High School of Boston...
Norman M. Abramson of 175 Glenway St., Dorchester; English High. Arlon T. Adams of Heath Route, Shelburne Falls; Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, N. H. Marshall Baker of 10 Gardner St. Salem; Salem High. Milton R. Baker of 43 Strathmore Rd., Brighton; Boston Public Latin. John S. Bowman of 87 Ceder St., Malden; Malden High. Paul A. Broduer, Jr., of 8 Surry Rd., Arlington Heights; Phillips Academy, Andover...
...almost three years Colombia's silver-haired Mariano Ospina Pérez has walked some of the steepest political cliffs in Latin America. Not once have his judgment, his courage and his silken poise failed him. A Conservative who reached the presidency because of a split in the Liberal Party, he has had to govern with a Liberal majority in the Congress and with a coalition cabinet. Ospina brushed off diehard Conservative pressure to crush the opposition by high-handed use of his powers. Last year, when enraged followers of assassinated Liberal Chieftain Jorge Eliécer Gaitan sacked...
John Gunther's ambitious Inside reports (Europe, Asia, Latin America, the U.S.) made lively reading for two reasons: 1) Gunther was driven by an insatiable hunger for facts and impressions; 2) his style was as breezy as a tabloid newspaper's, as terse as a telegram. A hardly avoidable consequence of this hop-skip-and-fly journalism was that Reporter Gunther frequently fell into glibness and superficiality. When he might have been mulling over the information he had just collected, he was already on the run to collect more...
...largest groups of converts gained over the 23-year period live in South Africa (where a nucleus of 714,013 grew to 5,467,281) and India-Pakistan (from 580,212 to 4,100,224). In heavily Roman Catholic Latin America, the heaviest gains showed in Brazil (69,527 to 1,657,524), Argentina (3,350 to 259,056) and Mexico (31,138 to 265,148). In the Far East, Manchuria's Protestants increased from 245 to 54,938, Korea's from 201,063 to 743,773, and China's from...