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Brazil is trying to strengthen her government by passing laws restricting ownership of certain industries to Brazilians. An example of this is a law passed by the House and now before the Senate that would expel all foreign oil producing industries...
Last June workmen repairing a building connected to the loggia probed a wall which Pope Paul III had put up across one end of the gallery in 1534 to strengthen its terminal arch. As the brick came away, they got a glimpse of bright design and glowing colors. For six months Dr. Deoclecio Redig de Campos, an assistant director of the Vatican's museums, bossed the delicate job of stripping away the rest of the wall, and last week he announced his discovery. Behind the bricks were two long, thin (12 ft. by 11 in.) sections of Raphael...
...believe that increased state aid to education is vitally necessary. A sound public policy is determined by the quality of our educational system, and I will do all that I can to strengthen our public schools system...
...need for civil rights legislation is, perhaps, greater now than ever before--not only to strengthen the nation's democracy but to bolster its reputation in Asia and Europe. And since there is little chance of southern states enacting their own FEPC, the federal government must press the issue strongly. The Democrats promise to; the Republicans...
...Malenkov and Molotov, who had been chosen to make the principal speeches. For four hours, Rising Favorite Georgy Malenkov (TIME, Oct. 6) harangued his audience with the old familiar routine, i.e., the "bosses" of the U.S. are bent on "world domination and war," and therefore the Soviet Union must "strengthen its defense capabilities." He and Molotov (same theme) spoke for the crowds to hear. But Stalin, whose words Communist strategists the world over will most closely attend, did not talk that...