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...clerk in a hotel, a hired pistolero, and finally returns home to take over Naolinco as its all-powerful cacique, or village chief. He goes from faded canvas pants to the garish socks, yellow shoes, felt hat and necktie that for him are the power symbols of the ruling señores. Juanito kills his first man from passion, his second for self-preservation, his third and fourth from pride. Yet when a lethargic justice at last executes him, it is for the wrong reason...
...Stettin outbreak was the most se rious of a series of anti-Soviet incidents that have rocked Poland in recent weeks...
...President boasts of record National Incomes, but fails to indicate that National Income is not necessarily, per se, an indication of prosperity. Examine a year in the midst of the Eisenhower reign, 1954, a year for which there are statistics available and one which hindsight can interpret. In 1954, in the midst of Republican "prosperity," the country produced the all-time record national debt of 275 billion dollars, greater than any during the Second World War. Although the debt is necessary, an abnormally high debt behind great government spending is no base for the national economy. Frantic hacking...
...Power-conscious Arthur Langlie is not against public power per se, is opposed to the Federal Government's pre-emption of power projects where local public and private power groups could accomplish the same...
...lightened people, to criticize his own side." The dogma of liberalism was that the liberal could do no wrong, and for some the day of disillusionment came only with the fall of Alger Hiss, when it became "impossible any longer to believe that . . . the liberal is per se the hero...