Word: luise
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The most influential Communist in the Western Hemisphere, Brazil's Luis Carlos Prestes, last week won the right to reappear in public. A Rio judge struck down a warrant for Prestes' "preventive" arrest, which has kept him underground for ten years. This week Prestes is supposed to come...
Golf-playing physicists have one big advantage-they know their physics. Hoping to improve his game (mid-80s), topnotch Physicist-Professor Luis W. Alvarez, 46, went about it scientifically, designed a stroboscopic golf-trainer. The electronic gadget allows the golfer to see "a series of positionally arrested images" of the...
When it became clear last week that Guatemala's hard-fought presidential election had failed to give any candidate a clear majority, front-running General Miguel Ydigoras Fuentes, 62. knew" just what to do. With the skill he had shown at winning votes from illiterate Indians, the old right...
Up to Congress. None of the three major presidential candidates got a clear majority. This left it to Congress, still controlled by Castillo Armas' M.D.N. party, to choose between the two front runners. Unofficial returns gave Rightist General Miguel Ydigoras Fuentes 177,198 votes, M.D.N, Candidate Colonel Jose Luis...
Du Pont Show of the Month: As a "renewer of old treasure," rather than a "maker of new molds," Thornton Wilder found in a one-act play by Prosper Merimee the seed of an idea for his second novel, The Bridge of San Luis Rey. "On Friday noon, July the...