Word: tough
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rented plane's owner heard that it had gone down in Cuba, he asked Hormel what had happened. Hormel denied ever making the flight. He was in Alabama at the time, he said; someone must have stolen the plane while his back was turned. It may be tough to prove. In Havana last week, the word was that Flyer Hormel had left his passport in the splashed plane-and that the U.S. Navy found the document when it towed the plane ashore...
...Attention. The high school films Combustion and Chlorine focus narrowly on their subjects, show only a pair of hands-those of Phillips Academy (Andover) Chemistry Master Elbert Weaver -performing experiments. Explanations are amplified by animated drawings showing molecular action. Weaver's scripts are tough enough to keep students out of that double-feature daze, call for as much attention as a classroom lecture. The films present no chemical formulae and do not show a periodic table-these can be handled better by textbooks and classroom charts. The Manufacturing Chemists' Association, which commissioned the films (cost: $20,000 each...
...France itself, where the republican tradition is particularly strong in the southwest, the Gaullist campaign is largely in the hands of tough Information Minister Jacques Soustelle, who has launched a series of radio, TV and newsreel presentations to explain the proposed constitution. To ensure that his message does not get garbled in transmission, Soustelle has already replaced some ten key members of the government-run Radio-Television FranÇaise. Increasingly, French radio, television and newsreels are becoming sycophantic in praise of De Gaulle. When a parliamentary committee accused Soustelle of imposing on France "unilateral and partial information," ex-Marxist...
Brazil. When tough-minded new Finance Minister Lucas Lopes took charge eight weeks ago, he found that his predecessor had run up a record six-month deficit of $168 million. Clanking presses were turning out inflated new currency at top speed (2.5 billion cruzeiros in both April and May, 1.8 billion in June). Lucas Lopes trimmed nearly $75 million from the current budget and even managed to take a symbolic batch of 7,204,800 cruzeiros out of circulation. He revamped the ruinous coffee-price-support program by making only token payments for low-grade coffee. Despite complaints from...
...signs of recovery. Paraguay's President Alfredo Stroessner, reinaugurated last week, has stabilized the currency, balanced the budget and held the rise in cost of living to a low (for Paraguay) 1% per month. And Chile's President Carlos Ibanez has sacrificed his personal popularity to back tough economic reforms, made even tougher by a deep slump in the world price of copper, the country's main export...