Word: phenomenons
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Figueres, educated at M.I.T. and recently divorced from an American wife, is something of a phenomenon in Costa Rica. After college, he bought a barren finca in Cartago which he called La Lucha Sin Fin (Struggle Without End), in recognition of the farmer's never-ending battle with nature. There he learned firsthand about the peasants' problems, set up a private welfare state for his own workers. He built them clean bungalows, saw them well fed from a community vegetable farm and a dairy that provided free milk for every child. In 1948, when the outgoing government tried...
Other People's Mail. As an intelligence chief who grew up in his business. Allen Dulles is a new phenomenon in the U.S. So, too, is the organization which he heads. Although there was some brisk intelligence work in the Civil War, the U.S. throughout most of its history has underrated the importance of intelligence. U.S. Army and Navy intelligence services, handicapped by the reluctance of regular officers to make a career of such work, were barely adequate for tactical purposes. In the 1920s. the State Department supported the so-called "Black Chamber." which had begun as an Army...
...Princeton laboratory Dr. Vladimir K. Zworykin, R.C.A.'s great electronics inventor, who pioneered the TV tube, worried about this phenomenon. What U.S. driving needs, he concluded, is some masterful device to take it away from the drivers. After years of work, Dr. Zworykin announced last week that he had designed an electronic system to do just that...
...exceedingly dirty and nasty people." Washington personally had to issue the most elementary sort of orders: that drunkenness be prohibited, that soldiers keep themselves and their camps clean. He had to do so throughout the war. He also had to put up for years with an even more horrifying phenomenon, which presented itself at Boston: his army began melting away, for militiamen, enlisted for short terms of only a few months, went home when their time was up, and always tried to take their muskets with them...
Said René Mayer: "Once again a singularly inopportune demonstration of that phenomenon of political instability which discredits France in the world and the regime in the country." At week's end President Vincent Auriol was still scanning the hills for sight of a new Premier...