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DiMento, who delievered the Latin Oration, welcomed the audience, including the "pulchritudini Radclivanae" in the "Novo Aspectu," and cautioned his hearers and classmates to "separate good from evil and truth from falsehood," in the November elections...
...Theater a year ago decided to revive it, the Soviet Government didn't spare the rubles. Early last year Producer L. Baratov assembled his huge cast, began lecturing them on the history and customs of the period (1598-1605). They toured the Kremlin, the Historical Museum and the Novo-Devichi and Donskoi monasteries to absorb the proper atmosphere...
...weeks. Hopes that the frictions that had plagued the Foreign Ministers' Conferences would be absent at Flushing were dashed as soon as the Assembly passed the back-slapping preliminaries and settled down to business. The same old demands and accusations were dragged from delegates' dispatch cases and presented "de novo." The same unwillingness to compromise was evident. Stalemate seemed likely...
Salazar began immediately to construct his Estado Novo. He announced that the New State would be based on two great calls for social reform-the Rerum Novarum of Pope Leo XIII and the Quadragesima Anno of Pius XI (see RELIGION). But however lofty may have been his inspiration, Salazar's execution was on a quite different pattern, one already known and hated as Fascism: free thought was abolished, the individual became subordinated to the state, the human bill of rights was suppressed and the secret police became the main arm of government. Soon little boys, well-shod and sporting...
...onlooker, teenaged, tuberculous João do Nascimento, was unappreciative. Like thousands of others, he had tried for two years to get into one of the Government sanatoriums (3,324 beds for 75,000 tuberculous Portuguese), growing steadily weaker while indifferent functionaries of the Estado Novo shuffled his papers. Rashly João complained to a friend: "There is always plenty of money to finance processions, but to take care of the sick such as myself there never seems to be a penny...