Word: messe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...strong-man leadership of the almost 13 million people of South America's third most populous country (after Brazil and Argentina). Preoccupied with the politics of staying in power, he failed to keep a sufficiently attentive eye on the economy. Now the figures add up to a mess (see chart...
Until the parking problem is solved, however, most other University projects seem relatively safe. For the Councillor makes no secret of the fact that he intends to clear that mess up first. "If Harvard doesn't do something soon," he threatens with a smile, "I might support that Professor who suggested they move to Peterborough. He may have come up with the best solution...
...Marshall's defense; he called TVA a form of "Creeping socialism;" he came to an entente cordiale with Senator Taft; he accused the Truman Administration of harboring those three villains, Corruption, Communism, and Controls; and he promised, dramatically, to "go to Korea" and get this country out of its mess...
...fighting has stopped in Korea, and Washington, as far as we can tell, is no longer a "mess." Candidate Eisenhower has been President Eisenhower for four years, and his own political philosophy is part of the printed record. And it is a philosophy that qualifies as "liberal." It is clear from public statements that Eisenhower does personally believe in and accept reciprocal trade, a form of federal aid to education, a program of national health insurance, foreign economic aid and the peaceful use of atomic power for the benefit of the whole world, a more liberal immigration law, equal rights...
...acting from mere self-interest. Citing the perennial parking problem, the councillor said he intended to use the highway as a bludgeon to obtain faster action. "It is the duty of the school and of the city, not of the students, to clear up the parking mess," he said. "Unless Harvard provides ample parking facilities for the student body, I may take serious steps to put the belt route right through the Harvard yard or Harvard Square...