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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...increasingly fed up with the lack of freedom and the harsh police methods of Salazar's paternal dictatorship. Portugal's money is stronger than the dollar, and prices are stable because the government holds down wages, but one-third of Portugal's 9,000,000 people live in villages with neither paved roads nor electricity. Last week Lisbon was afire with reports that the old leader, hurt and bewildered by mounting criticism, was thinking of stepping down...
...basic facts of Latin American land tenure are stark. Less than 5% of Latin America's 8,000,000 square miles is under cultivation, although two-thirds of the 190 million people live from agriculture. Population density is only 24 to the square mile (v. 54 in the U.S.), but millions go hungry. Farm productivity per man-hour is less than one-fifth that of the U.S., food output barely keeps pace with population, and most of the 20 countries must import food...
...well scare off all U.S. capital and thereby slow Cuba's growth toward a diversified economy. As Mexico and Puerto Rico have proved, diversification provides new jobs and takes most of the fire away from the land-reform issue. Only 55% of Mexico's citizens now live off the land (compared to 80% in 1930). The most prosperous Mexican farmers are the big ones, who have found ways of getting around land reform's parcelization. Among the richest planters in Morelos is Nicolas Zapata, son of Emiliano...
Though prestigious organizations of law-abiding citizens-notably the New York Academy of Medicine-have urged adoption of the British system, Judge Murtagh has no hope that anything so revolutionary would be accepted in the U.S. In Who Live in Shadow, written with Sara Harris and published this week (McGraw-Hill; $4.50), Murtagh offers a compromise prescription: ¶ Set up facilities under federal auspices for treating narcotics addicts in all major cities...
...high school in West Orange, N.J. and trudged through the business from messenger to bookkeeper, from assistant head bookkeeper to assistant secretary, from assistant treasurer to treasurer to vice president to executive vice president and finally, in 1948, president. He dressed like a banker, in severe greys and blues, lived where the bankers live, out among the rolling lawns and towering oaks of Short Hills. He married, raised two children, and when his wife of 25 years died in 1945 married again...