Word: leveler
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...Mexico businessmen and the jobs of New Mexico workmen to his Senate politicking. Last week, as New Mexicans went to the polls to hold their primaries, Chavez let loose a final claim that New Mexico will get $261 million from the Defense Department in fiscal 1959,* twice the annual level when Chavez took over the Appropriations Subcommittee in 1955. "This increase," said Senator Chavez meaningfully, "didn't just happen...
Behind him functioned the best political organization in Italy, much of it his own making. Inheriting the mantle of party leadership just before the death of Italy's great postwar statesman. Alcide de Gasperi, in 1954. Fanfani reorganized and rejuvenated the party from the ward level up. For this year's campaign -the first the party has had to fight without the magic name of De Gasperi -Fanfani organized 120,000 Christian Democratic militants into cells of three people each (one woman, one young man, one cell chief). Student organizations, trade-union groups, para-religious organizations...
...cannot do much about is Latin American embarrassment over the political immaturity shown in the frequency of revolutions. Another is envy, and although the U.S. can help, it cannot bring the economic millennium full-blown to Latin American nations, raising their combined gross national product fourfold to the U.S. level...
...America. It also showed that they were capable of spitting on a woman, an act that would cost them heavily in a continent that prizes manners. Latin Americans got a lesson in the excesses of nationalism. And for the U.S., there could no longer be illusions, complacency or high-level brushoff in U.S.Latin American relations...
Since the average "reader" of the Yearbook gets no further than the pictures, it seems worthwhile to begin a review of Three Twenty Two with a few words about the book's uneven level of photographic achievement. The high-points are some very nice portraits of professors and several pictures best described as "moody." There are many candidates for the low-point, but the worst would seem to be the PBH photographs that appear to have been taken through a bowl of split pea soup. Many other photographs are out of focus, poorly lit, and just plain dull...