Word: modernizations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...idea of making a czar out of anybody! Usually, they have always tried to do it about a military man. Now they found that wasn't very profitable because . . . they couldn't find a single military man in modern history, not to say American history, but in modern history, except in certain of the Latin American countries. Hitler and Mussolini were not soldiers; and Bismarck, who was almost a dictator until Wilhelm II came along-he was a civilian. So they gave up that argument, and now they are talking about a civilian czar...
Marcos Pérez Jiménez, the chubby dictator who was booted out of Venezuela in January, picked out a comfortable spot last week in which to languish in exile-a modern mansion at 4609 Pine Tree Drive, Miami Beach. Seller: Ray E. Dodge, onetime Olympic 800-meter runner (Paris, 1924), now a manufacturer of loving cups and other trophies. Estimated price: around...
Last week the University of Oklahoma Hospitals reported that rarely in medical annals has the poignant phenomenon of false pregnancy-pseudocyesis-survived such odds of matter over mind. Pseudocyesis is older than Hippocrates, has affected subjects from seven to 79. Modern medicine knows it as a mental condition, arising from emotional needs so intense that they lead to suppression of menstruation, distention of the abdomen, enlargement of the breasts, and morning nausea. Most cases involve psychotic women with a feeble grasp of reality. But this patient was not psychotic. Her perceptions were normal; she knew all along that the operation...
...proposed new University Health Center and administrative building will be a ten story modern structure, the University disclosed yesterday. Housing also stores and offices, the $9 million structure which is to fill the block between Holyoke and Dunster Streets on Massachusetts Avenue, will dominate the Square...
Designed by Jose L. Sert, Dean of the School of Design, the block will feature modern stores, tree-lined promenades along Holyoke and Dunster Streets, and an arcade through the center of the block to link the Yard and Houses...