Word: puree
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...nations. As Colombian President Alberto Lleras Camargo (onetime head of the OAS) once said: "A group of democratic nations may destroy an antidemocratic government by coercion and intervention. But who is going to guarantee that a coalition of antidemocratic governments will not proceed in this identical form against a pure and democratic regime...
...head of an independent ticket. Plaza, now 53 and main speaker at the recent Puerto Rican conference of U.S. Governors, gave Ecuador its first census, developed the world's largest banana industry to relieve Ecuador's dependence on witches'-broom-diseased cacao, offered Ecuador "chemically pure" democracy, free of press censorship and police statism. He served out all his four years, the first president to do so in 28 years, boasted that "my full term healed Ecuador." Successor José Maria Velasco Ibarra also served out his term...
Died. John Gamble Kirkwood, 52, Chemistry Department chairman at Yale University, who developed a new method of separating blood proteins, at 28 won the American Chemical Society's Langmuir award in pure chemistry; of cancer; in New Haven, Conn...
Idealism for Schiller, Atkins emphasized, did not mean the offering of a Utopia, but rather a spirit of freedom which harmoniously combined feeling and reason. Nor was there any "blind romantic idealism" in the poet's system, for Schiller felt that pure freedom existed only in the realm of dreams and that practical freedom was limited by moral...
Chairman Martin pointed out that the index of industrial growth is a more significant indication of the economy's bustle than many other indicators, such as gross national product. It is a pure index of real production, does not include the inflationary rise in prices, which often makes the rise in other indexes seem greater than it actually is. Said Martin: "As the structure of the economy keeps changing, the job of combining measures of its many parts into a single index cannot be done without having to make major revisions every few years." With increasing use of electronic...