Word: parks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Beauty and order are inseparable." So Portugal's dour, scholarly Premier António de Oliveira Salazar is fond of saying. As a spangled religious procession wound through a Lisbon park, both these elements of his 14-year-old clerico-fascist regime were evident. Beauty was represented by the silken banners and swinging censers, order by the plainclothesmen of the dreaded P.V.D.E. (Police of Vigilance and Defense of the State...
...finance war purchases for six weeks, the Foreign Exchange Control Board revealed. To conserve the rapidly dwindling reserves, drastic exchange controls were imposed, including the highly unpopular ban on use of U.S. dollars by Canadians for pleasure trips. But it was the inflow of dollars under the Hyde Park Agreement that helped most...
Victor Moore, who recently tried to give his dog a romp and got fined for unleashing it in Manhattan's Central Park (TIME, May 27), tried to go fishing and walked into an explosion. At Greenport, L.I., the portly comedian and Son Robert were tuning up the engines of their cabin cruiser when something exploded. Results: Son Robert, arm and leg burns; Victor, a scratched thumb and little finger, singed hair and eyebrows...
...Eyck, Gerard David and Van der Goes, such Germans as Dürer, Grünewald and Holbein. But the popular favorite by a day's march was Cranach's 16th-Century Fountain of Youth. His cosily detailed vision of the fountain seemed as real as a park pool. Cranach made people half-believe he had found the place where stooped cripples and trembling yellow hags could bathe and become pink-skinned virgins once again...
...Swegan, shortstop and captain of the Crimson baseball team, was a member the Eastern All-Star college nine which defeated the Western All-Stars, 6 to 2, at Fenway Park Friday afternoon, in a game sponsored by the College Baseball Coaches' Association, expected to be the first in a series of annual intersectional battles...