Word: posts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...presidential palace watching these goings-on is young Vice President, Diosdado Macapagal, a Magsaysay follower who, running on the Liberal ticket, got more votes for Veep than did Nacionalista Garcia for President. Since Macapagal refused to change his party after the election, Garcia barred him from any Cabinet post. Completely isolated ("I only learn what's going on from reading the newspapers"), Macapagal has been subjected to every kind of palace snub. If his air conditioner breaks down, maintenance men take weeks to fix it. When official limousines were handed out, he got a rattletrap that Garcia himself...
...left cheek were the proud, ugly scars of old duels. After his Heidelberg student days, Zind had become a Nazi Storm Trooper, then a reserve captain in the Wehrmacht on the Russian front. Back in Offenburg after the war, he was first barred from his old teaching post by the Allies, but in 1948 he got his job back as a mathematics and biology teacher at Grimmelshausen Gymnasium (secondary school). He became head of the local sports club. But unlike the millions of Germans who tried to forget the past, or wanted to improve upon it, Ludwig Zind never composed...
...Paris, Life and Death of a Spanish Town-), writer of sometimes tongue -in -cheek whodunits (HuggerMugger in the Louvre, The Mysterious Mickey Finn), screen playwright (Rhapsody in Blue), expatriate journalist, gourmet, jazz pianist; after long illness; in Providence. Among the writers who found themselves by getting lost in post-World War I Paris, few achieved more publication than Elliot Paul. A bearded, balding man with the look of a Tatar khan, he was a familiar figure on the Left Bank for nearly two decades, co-edited the monthly literary magazine transition, which published and encouraged experimental writing by such Montmartyrs...
Although he indicated that there is no sure-fire solution to the "worst post-war recession," Samuelson said that a sizable tax cut and increased governmental expenditures should be attempted. This added governmental spending should be in areas which could use more financing, such as national defense, civil defense, and schools, highways, and post offices, rather than on projects designed for the sole purpose of spending, he added...
...prize twice, and receiving his A.B. in 1882. After teaching Latin at Exeter for six years, he was appointed instructor of English in 1888. Immediately popular with the Faculty and the student body, he soon became a full professor, and in 1917 was named Gurney Professor of English, a post he held until his retirement in 1936. Although he was given a plethora of honorary degrees (from Harvard, Oxford, Chicago, Johns Hopkins, McGill, Brown, Trinity, Union and Colby), he never received a Ph.D. "Who," he replied when someone asked why not, "could examine...