Word: lessers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Juan Antonio Rios, 57, Chile's middle-of-the-road, opportunistic President (1942-46) who was elected with leftist support as a lesser evil than ex-Strong Man Ibáñez, under wartime stresses maintained a reasonable Right; of cancer; in Santiago (see LATIN AMERICA...
Temple Paradise. In Guatemala last week, an expedition financed by the United Fruit Co. was restoring the Mayan city of Zaculeu, near Huehuetenango. Zaculeu's spectacular pyramid temple is surrounded by a diggers' paradise of lesser temples and altars. (Near by is a court for the breakneck religious ball game which Central Americans believe to be the ancestor of basket ball.) Guatemala is dotted with dead stone cities, and United Fruit has promised a five-year program to put them back in shape...
...Nauheim, Germany, where Kilian, several lower ranking officers, and enlisted guards are on trial for alleged mistreatment of GI prisoners. Sergeant Judson Smith, chief non-commissioned officer at the guardhouse, received three years at hard labor and a dishonorable discharge. Other enlisted men are serving prison sentences of lesser length. And last week a first lieutenant, first officer to be tried and the man alleged to have ordered the beatings, heard his sentence-admonition and a fine of $250, or approximately one month...
...results, announced several days after the vote, also were accepted calmly (with the exception of minor monarchist outbreaks at Naples, Rome and Palermo). The Christian Democrats had won 207 seats in the 559-deputy assembly. They and lesser parties, their probable allies, could expect to control 275 seats. The Socialists got 116, the Communists...
...waits for teams to come to town to play the Boston Braves and the Red Sox; the visitors are usually curious enough to go out to his place to hear his story. His main talking points: 1) a minimum wage of $7,500 a year, which sounds good to lesser lights who seldom finish up a season with enough carfare to get home; 2) 50% of the sale price to go to a player when he is sold to another club. Not until his union is good & strong does Murphy intend to do anything about baseball's reserve clause...