Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Decades of warfare between the Iroquois and Cherokee gave Kentucky its name, the "dark and bloody ground." The tradition of bloodthirsty cunning has survived with a vengeance in Kentucky politics, turned vote-hunting into a boyhood sport, factional throat-cutting into a party game that everybody enjoys. For the past quarter-century, two tough Democratic leaders have led their rival factions through a war that has engaged courthouse politicians in 120 counties. Last week, stalking each other behind hand-picked slates of candidates for state offices, the scarred chieftains were grappling toward a major test of power...
Surprisingly, Geneva turned out to be a cause for pessimism perhaps, but not for cynicism. The proposals put down jointly by the West-the product of countless study papers, countless conferences-proved neither unyielding nor narrow. They took account of what was legitimate in Russia's past positions on Europe; they moved away from the position, no longer tenable after 14 years of peace, that the conquerors could still impose on Germany the shape of its future government. They gave the U.S.S.R. the chance to prove what it professed to desire. In their careful phrasing and attention to detail...
...asphalt spreaders, tank trailers. "Business has increased 300% to 400% every year since I started," says Millionaire Sanson. Along with 39,892 other businesses (quadrupled since 1946), San-son's enterprise is riding a boom that has kited Brazil's gross national product up 63% in the past ten years, has boosted the per capita G.N.P. 29%-allowing for a population explosion from...
...business booms for Sanson and his brother builders, conservative economists gloom over the facts and figures of what seems to promise serious economic trouble. The cost of living has vaulted 365% since 1948, 27% in the past two years. More than 120 billion cruzeiros, each worth four-fifths of a cent at the free-exchange rate, are bursting pocketbooks (v. only 20.5 billion, each worth 5.4?, ten years ago). From a $248 million foreign-trade gain in 1956, Brazil plummeted into a $97 million loss in 1957, a $166 million loss in 1958. Loan interest, loan repayments and massive installments...
...Lock Step. The city they like to show visitors looks something like the better residential sections of Palm Beach, Fla. The ten-minute drive from the airport takes the visitor past block after block of modern houses that range from $50,000 on up to $200,000. This one belongs to Trujillo's son, that one to his daughter. Brother Hector, the nominal...