Word: mindedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Vicious & Unacceptable. For nine months Russian and U.S. delegates to the Atomic Energy Commission and the U.N. Security Council have weaved through a maze of procedural and technical arguments. The U.S. press and public got the idea that the two countries were not far apart on the basic question of...
Most of the 705 were descendants of German immigrants who, in the past 100 years, turned southern Brazil into a New World Bavaria. During the '30s, as good Volksdeutsche, they had gone heim ins Reich (home to the Reich). War trapped them, but apparently they had not minded too...
Between meetings, such world-famed architects as Harvard's functionalist Walter Gropius, Finland's elfin Alvar Aalto, California's machine-minded Richard Neutra, and Brazil's hot-eyed Marcelo Roberto invaded the bar of the mock-colonial Princeton Inn to swap anecdotes about their worst frustrations...
That, apparently, was the lift Bill Knowland needed. He sailed into Washington with the enthusiasm of a man determined to stay. He was an attentive, fair-minded and active member of the Atomic Energy Committee. He startled the party sages who expected him merely to sit tight, learn the ropes...
Shining Career. But Genaro was established as presidential bootblack. He bent over the shoes of stern Plutarco Elias Calles, of genial Emilio Portes Gil, of absent-minded Abelardo Rodriguez. He went on the palace payroll ($45 a month). Courtly Pasquel Ortiz Rubio sent the presidential limousine for him. President Cardenas...