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...this is part of a whirlwind campaign begun in 1944 by President Avila Camacho and his tireless, able Education Minister Jaime Torres Bodet. They reasoned that Mexico could cure its biggest problem-48% illiteracy*-within a year if "each one taught one." To rope in the illiterates the Department of Irrigation offered free corn to anyone attending its classes. A special stamp issue was put out to help pay for 4,000,000 Government-issued primers. One illiterate old Indian chief solemnly promised Minister Bodet to make the people of his village literate even if he had to kill...
...tireless competition between Hereford and Aberdeen Angus men, the new $51,000 record may not last long. But many a cattleman thinks that such fantastic prices, even in boom times, are dangerous risks. A good bull can pay for himself in breeding fees in a few months, but a bad one cannot. Two years ago a bull named T. Royal Rupert 99th sold for a world record $38,000. Cattlemen soon dubbed him "Reluctant Rupert." He has shown absolutely no interest in cows...
...York's plump, tireless, globetrotting, auctorial* Archbishop Francis Joseph Spellman learned of his elevation on the eve of going home to his father's for Christmas in Whitman, Mass. Asked if his appointment made this his happiest homecoming, he said: "The happiest was the day I came home ordained after five years away and said Mass for my father and mother." The onetime grocer's boy and champion horseshoe pitcher, now the able and beloved shepherd of Catholicism's richest archdiocese, is one of Pius XII's closest friends, served under him in Rome...
Iron Faces, Clerkly Gifts. Sitting in London's crowded Central Criminal Court, she noted "the men with iron faces who belong to the special police," the defense counsel "who pecks at his cases like a sparrow, as tireless and as careful of the smallest grain," and the intelligence officers "who are usually of notably mild appearance, having been detached from the ordinary Army service because of their clerkly gifts." To set the stage she went clear back to the '80s and the meeting (at Harrow) of young Winston Churchill and young Leopold Amery, when Winston pushed Amery into...
...gone by year's end. Soon to go was energetic, ambitious, 53-year-old Brehon B. Somervell, who as chief of the Army Service Forces ran history's greatest supply job. Already back in civilian life was Lieut. General William Knudsen, the War Department's tireless coordinator and trouble shooter on war industry's production line...