Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Under Luís Batlle Berres, 61 (Batlle y Ordóñez' nephew), Uruguayans in the past eleven years got the real bill for Utopia. The state ballooned into an octopus, employed a fifth of the nation's force, with offices staffed so heavily that bureaucrats had to come early to get seats...
...Manuel Tello, 59, Secretary of Foreign Affairs. Ruiz Cortines' able Ambassador to the U.S. for the past six years, he will probably be replaced in Washington by Antonio Carrillo Flores, 49, Finance Secretary under Ruiz Cortines and one of the best friends the U.S. has in Mexico...
...toward humanities majors, says Dr. Joseph Ceithaml, dean of students at the medical school: "If two men apply, and both have the required basic scientific courses behind them, and one was a philosophy major and the other solely a premed student, the philosophy man gets the nod." In the past, students headed toward medicine piled up huge backlogs of scientific courses, "which they could very well have done without...
...grim, grey pile beside the Charles River looks chilly on a summer day, and in December seems too austere to support life. But only one or two other U.S. centers of science have been as fruitful during the past decade as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Last week M.I.T. named as its new president a man who. with outgoing President James R. Killian Jr., deserves a large measure of the credit: Chancellor Julius Adams Stratton...
Pollock's painting, said the Times, is "almost an act of spiritual brinkmanship . . . Like Pope's spider, he feels along the line." The Sunday Times's John Russell, who had scoffed at Pollock in the past, now praised "the great pounding rhythms which batter their way across the 18-ft. canvases, never for a moment out of control." Pollock was much more than "Drool School," conceded the Manchester Guardian. "Rich and splendid design of this quality and on this scale is infinitely rare." The Observer allowed that "the crude impression of a dotty exhibitionist spilling paint aimlessly...