Word: manners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Winner Prado, 67, a spirited bantam of a man who skillfully combines a patrician manner with the common touch, doubtless got some support from voters nostalgic for his prosperous earlier regime. But the winning edge almost certainly came from a courageous promise that was a political master stroke as well. Two days before the election, Prado announced that "one of the first acts of my government will be to declare a general political amnesty and put an end to the proscription of political parties." In Peru the only significant proscribed party is APRA (American Popular Revolutionary Alliance), which was thrown...
...withdrew, so the price was raised by 210 francs each. How many people finally formed the group?"* The result of the exam: 55% of the 200,000 flunked. French psychologists promptly erupted: "It is detestable," said one, "to advance the age of anxiety in such a manner." Said the Paris-Presse: "They have created a competition for little monsters." Last week Education Minister René Billeres backed down, promised to give the flunked eleven-year-olds a more eleven-year-oldish exam...
...archdiocese of Boston, issued a stern warning to the girls about their summer dress. Slacks are not yet being worn to Mass, "but already young ladies and some not quite so young," said The Pilot, "are coming to the sacraments especially Saturday afternoon confession attired in this most unbecoming manner . . . Let those more competent to judge say whether or not there is ever a time when young ladies should wear trousers-the fact is that many are wearing them. Whatever they may lack in dignity anc comeliness, they are modest. It is the style, however, and we cannot bring ourselves...
...show is a joint effort of CBS and the American Museum of Natural History, and museum scientists and ideas are freely used in combination with CBS personnel and techniques. The technique is a mixture of live action, film and remote pickups-in the news-show manner. Adventure also claims to have initiated new TV techniques, such as shadow play with mimes to suggest an event of the past, and the ballet to give a concrete illustration of an abstract scientific principle, e.g., the "hereditary ballet," in which the dancers are identifiable as specific genes, to show how a child inherits...
Dave McDonald, the Steelworkers' handsome chief, put on his best scowl last week as he posed for a TV film, and essayed some rolling perorations in the inimitable manner of the master, John L. Lewis. McDonald cried that in the current negotiations the steel industry had made an "about-face" on 20 years of collective bargaining, and given his union an "ultimatum" to accept a "substandard contract." After four weeks of negotiating between McDonald and U.S. Steel's John Stephens, the industry's chief spokesman, the differences boiled down to i) a union demand...