Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...swallow's nests, from canned Malayan pineapples to frozen pizzas and spaghetti in plastic bags. Increasingly, middle-class housewives leave their maids at home (thus ending the maids' expected rake-off on the week's shopping money), personally wheel their market carts in air-conditioned luxury past shelves labeled in English "roast chicken" (which presumably sounds more exotic than polio arrosto). Tommy-gun-toting guards accompany the cashiers to the company's central office with the day's take; the supermarkets' loss from theft is less than...
...dark of a windy evening last week a waterlogged raft drifted with the waves of the South Pacific, as it had for four months past. The deck was awash in 3 ft. of water; to the roof of the deckhouse there clung five sick and starving men, Eric de Bisschop and his four-man crew. Ahead of them lay the foam-edged sickle of the reef of Rakahanga in the northern Cook Islands. They had already missed landfalls at the Tuamotus, at Starbuck and Penrhyn Islands. There was no option but to shoot the reef at Rakahanga in the hope...
...sixth and final time, Mexico's outgoing President Adolfo Ruiz Cortines draped the red, white and green sash of office across his shirt front, climbed aboard the ceremonial Packard and drove past cheering thousands to the Chamber of Deputies. Across the nation Mexicans gathered around television sets, radios, and street-corner loudspeakers for the last state of the nation address from a man whose honest, middle-reading administration had served the country well. "In each chapter," said Ruiz Cortines proudly, "the country will find a resume of what the Mexican people have accomplished since...
...given to grandiose projects that gobbled up as much as 40% of the annual budget. Now, the President was leaving a nation troubled by labor strife, including new riots this week that injured scores. But it was also a country that had taken some giant strides in the past six years, despite the fact that Mexico in 1958 felt the pinch of recession north of the Rio Grande. Mileposts...
...heavy Protestant invasion is partly due to the fact that the Far East, long a prime missionary target, has been largely closed by war or Communism for the past two decades. But it is not the only reason. While there are five times as many Catholic priests, nuns and brothers in Latin America as there are Protestant churchmen and women, the Catholics must tend their already established flocks, while Protestants can put more time and money into missionary work. Protestant missionaries supply remote outposts with their own airlines (TIME, Jan. 6), run their own radio networks, gave away free nearly...