Word: rammed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Honduran election brought power at last to Dr. Ramón Villeda Morales, who won an election three years ago but was counted out by back-country political bosses. During the interval, while Honduras was ruled by dictatorship and junta, Villeda went off to Washington as ambassador, gradually moderated some of his leftist ideas. As Villeda stopped talking of doubling and tripling wages, the junta warmed to him, decided to let the voters elect a constituent assembly. In last week's balloting, Villeda's Liberals won 36 out of the 58 seats. The assembly also has legislative powers...
Behind closed doors, the meeting droned on for more than three hours. Western Conference Boss Frank Brewster (who was sentenced to a year in prison last month for contempt of Congress), long a Hoffa enemy, wanted to ram through an endorsement of Hoffa. Dave Beck, chins-deep in trouble,* was absent, but the word was around that what little power he has left will be with Hoffa in the hope that President Hoffa would help to make Beck president emeritus (at $50,000 a year...
PLATERO AND I (159 pp.)-Juan Ramón Jiménez, translated by William and Mary Roberts-Duschnes...
PLATERO AND I (218 pp.)-Juan Ramón Jiménez, translated by Eloïse Roach-University of Texas...
When Juan Ramón Jiménez won the 1956 Nobel Prize for literature (TIME, Nov. 5, 1956), most Americans hearing the news wondered who on earth he was. The greatest living poet of the Spanish-speaking world had hardly been translated into English, and. except for students of Spanish literature, even the literarily enlightened only vaguely knew his name from anthologies. In Spain Poet Jiménez had kept aloof from political life, in 1936 had exiled himself to America, eventually settling in Puerto Rico. Now one of his most memorable works is available to U.S. readers, largely...