Word: marte
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Life was good for Govind, the little Hindu tailor. His shop, "The Handsome Gent's Tailoring Mart," buzzed with the profitable whir of a double row of sewing machines. His workmen were fond of him. He had a lovely, loving wife, two healthy babies and a third on the way. Good Hindu that he was, he tried to be a good man, gave alms to fakirs and lepers, never ate meat, and hoped for his soul's betterment in a new reincarnation...
With their usual equanimity in political matters, Uruguayans quietly witnessed a notable change in their country's government last week. Just one year after his inauguration, President Andrés Martínez Trueba stepped down from his high office and took oath as a member of the new nine-man federal council. Thus the "Switzerland of the Americas" became one of the two countries in the world to be governed by an executive council with a rotating chairmanship. (The other: Switzerland.) As its first presiding officer, the council chose a man who had worked hard to persuade Uruguayans...
...Merchandise Mart...
...housing for this vast brain is a marvelously articulated mechanism, unique on the face of the known world. It is the world's largest office building-three times the size of the Empire State Building, 50% bigger than Chicago's Merchandise Mart. The U.S. Capitol would fit neatly into just one of its five segments. It was built low because of the nearby Washington airport, with stairways and ramps instead of elevators* to save wartime materials, and with five sides to add wall space without adding walking time (the way to save steps is to walk around...
Last week another Radical leader, Martín Michel Torino, co-owner of the closed opposition newspaper, El Intransigente, in Salta, was arrested for the same "crime": disrespect for public officials. The specific charge against Torino was insulting the police of Salta-no mean feat for a publisher whose newspaper has been shut down by order of the government since December...