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Students at "Thunderbird College" will be taught Spanish and Portuguese by Army speed-up techniques, learn to appreciate what Dunne calls "such splendid institutions as the siesta." By last week the Institute had accepted 119 applications, hoped to enroll 250 students before Oct. 1. Biggest source of prospects: such export-minded businesses as the Sperry Corp., Pan American Airways. Tuition: $1,450 (room and board included...
...Mindanao, the unmanageable Moros ignore Manila, as usual. Without forceful persuasion, perhaps 80% of the population could never be made to dream of anything but siesta, fiesta and sunsets...
...Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare, Perón went about getting the backing of both peón and porteño. He upped peónes' wages to as much as $30 a month, guaranteed them a two-hour rest after lunch (called the "Siesta of Perón"). Some of the worst-off, like the miserable sugar-cane workers around Tucuman, went...
...Italians come to work at 8 or 9 in the morning, knock off at 1 for a three-hour lunch and siesta, resume work around 4 or 4:30. Government offices usually stay open until 7 or 8, despite anguished British-U.S. efforts to make the Italians conform to British-U.S. hours...
...farther down Maine you go, the more rarely you see nudes in barns. But last fortnight Waldo Peirce of Bangor and Castine, Me. hung his nude Siesta in the Barn (see cut) in Manhattan's Midtown Galleries as the headpiece of a show of 16 oils. Along with several other warm, exhilarating paintings, it suggested that 59-year-old Waldo Peirce is one of the few good painters of simple happiness since Renoir...