Word: west
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nonetheless, the flight to the West continues. Increasingly, the refugees are members of the intellectual elite essential to the functioning of a modern state-teachers (3,400 in 1958), doctors (more than 850), scientists (375). Most refugees flee...
...nonindustrial, coffee-based country after World War II. Now Brazil has a spreading highway net, modernized railroads, more than $1 billion worth of new power dams, improved port facilities, even a $100 million new capital in the interior-Brasilia-that focuses the nation's eyes on the untapped west. Along with this public investment, a private industrial giant has grown up at the lively pace of the sambas that are played in some factories to keep production hopping. Samples...
What I saw was the bristling little dictatorship of Generalissimo Trujillo. The Dominicans brag that they have 25,000 men under arms, an air force of 50 jets, and a navy of 19 frigate-destroyer escort-type vessels, all highly efficient. The troops looked neat and tough. Drive west from the center of Ciudad Trujillo, and you come on huge fields with possibly 2,000 to 3,000 men drilling in squad-sized groups. These are the draftees, and their D.I.s strut and chant like U.S. marines, all very sharp. On the air route from the east, there...
Trujillo's country home near San Cristobal, 20 miles west in the foothills, is as big as a castle and guarded like one. I went up there with my two policemen buddies, and a soldier dogged me so closely it looked as if we were in lock step. The house itself is an immense pile of plate glass and yellowish-brown stone, with galleries running all around. On the next hilltop was a huge neon sign about 50 ft. by 20 ft. that flashes at night, "telling people," my buddies said, "of all Trujillo's good works...
...trick of calling a surprise session at noon in order to hit the afternoon papers with a fresh story (the claim that Russia would insist to the end on full participation for Communist Poland and Czechoslovakia). With such attractions, Russian briefings regularly attracted bigger audiences than those of the West...