Word: professors
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Tighten Up. To qualify for substantial foreign help, able Commerce Minister Alberto Ullastres (a former economics professor) flew home from a last round of conferences in Washington and Paris, to start a long list of major reforms. The government decreed that the peseta, which up until now has been subject to at least 13 different exchange rates, would be fixed at 60 to the dollar. Excused for the time being from paying $45 million in foreign debts. Spain would get an injection of $375 million in additional aid from the U.S., OEEC, the International Monetary Fund, private U.S. concerns...
...until 1898 did he get his M.D., at once became the world's first professor of roentgenology, ran the first hospital
...Strawberries" runs through elderly Professor Isak Borg's one-day motor trip to receive an honorary degree at a Swedish university, and through old age's dreams of youth and death. Between self-revealing dream sequences, Borg is busy talking to his bitterly perceptive daughter-in-law (Ingrid Thulin), arguing and making-up with his stout-hearted housekeeper (Julan Kindahl), and experiencing three impossibly youthful hitch-hikers and an actress-and-husband couple whom he has picked up on the road to the university...
...professor Borg, Victor Sjostrom has emerged into some glowing Indian summer acting; his portrayal is effortless yet sustained and deep-cutting...
...professor, who has for many years been a very eminent doctor, dreams of confrontations with the people he has left for dead; and he keynotes the film with the statement that "in our relations with other people, we mainly criticize them...