Word: marring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...small farmers' cooperatives to pull their parishioners out of economic trouble. Father Walter Hogan's Institute of Social Order in Manila -one of five Jesuit labor-relations schools in India and the Philippines-has bucked Filipino industrialists on behalf of striking dock and airline workers (TIME, Mar...
...Harvard-educated engineer for Sáo Paulo's Canadian-owned power company, got the idea of damming these rivers and guiding their waters back over the 2,400-ft. palisades to the Atlantic. Magnificently successful, Billings' complex of tunnels, pumps, penstocks and turbines at Serra do Mar produced more electricity than any but the world's two or three biggest dams and made possible the industrial prodigies that Paulistas have since accomplished...
...Will," a short, slight figure in a crumpled brown suit, walked proudly across the stage of Washington's big Departmental Auditorium and shook the hand of Secretary of State Dean Acheson. Acheson had summoned 62-year-old Mar- vin Wilbur Will to present him with the Distinguished Service Medal, the department's highest award...
...passport was forthcoming. Not even brother Nicolás could do anything. Last week, Luisa María canceled her travel plans and said philosophically: "Never mind. It won't be long before I'll be traveling on a diplomatic passport signed by a minister of the king. My only regret is that I wasted time dancing with that fat, perspiring...
...Albizu's party unleashed an armed revolutionary coup timed with an attempt to assassinate President Truman. In all, 33 persons were killed before the rising was put down. "The law will fall on whoever is responsible for this tragedy," promised Puerto Rican Governor Muñoz Marín. That meant Albizu Campos. Last week, in a half-empty courtroom, Albizu was convicted on twelve charges of trying to overthrow the Puerto Rican government by force. Maximum penalty on each charge: ten years in prison...