Word: papered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ordinary Italian worker, whose weekly salary all goes for rent and pasta, the only hope for retirement is a pension -meager at best and by no means automatic. If he is privately employed, his fate is in the hands of a monstrous, Kafkaesque government bureau whose paper-shuffling overhead is so high that a man whose employer has paid in $15,000 on his behalf over a 30-year period will receive only $3,000 of it when he retires. The one Italian worker in eight who is a government employee fares somewhat better: provided he works nearly 20 years...
Cuba had been waiting for just such straight talk. Diario sold out all over Havana, and congratulatory calls from across the island jammed the paper's switchboard. Editor Jose I. Rivero went home to find the place flooded with flowers from well-wishers. One group of women offered to sit in front of the Diario building to guard it against any attack. Editor Rivero, ringing up 6,000 new subscriptions, followed through with four more columns of editorials and a little box noting the subscriptions with the headline: THANK YOU, FIDEL...
...show as well. Their contributions to the print-making world have been slight, as the few works they show demonstrate. The best of the group is a reserved color lithograph by Andrew Stasik where a large mottled rectangular form slanted across the page elegantly balances the white of the paper surrounding it. As for the remaining few abstract pieces, they seem to be imitating avant-garde paintings while suffering from their inability to employ the tactile effects of pigment...
Even 'Cliffies will be welcomed this evening at 7:30 p.m. when the CRIMSON hosts its first lavish candidate meeting. Absorbing free beer to the rhythm of the AP tickertape, all those interested may talk to the editors, inspect the paper's independent printing facilities, and if they like, start competing for the Fourth Estate...
...Edtorial Board demands only that its aspirants be versatile, articulate and opinionated. From its columns you can subtly manipulate the opinions of the paper's 10,000 readers. Your slightest frown will make theatres close, statesmen tumble, and deans resign...