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...curiously, Kubitschek's suggestions that were to have the widest reach and scope concerned the relatively prosperous area of the central South. (This area, which includes the most heavily industrial sectors such as those of Sao Paulo, is generaly considered the key to overcoming Brazil's most perplexing economic problem: an unfavorable balance of trade...

Author: By Robert W. Gordon, | Title: Kubitschek Justifies Capital Change As Economically Sound for Brazil | 3/8/1962 | See Source »

...White House now who will listen to us." They support a great many of President Kennedy's proposals such as the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, Food for Peace, purchase of UN bonds, cultural and intellectual exchanges with the Soviet Union, and "opening of communications media on the widest possible basis" with the Soviets...

Author: By Steven V. Roberts, | Title: Project Washington | 3/2/1962 | See Source »

...widest radio audience in the U.S. is commanded not by any U.S. station but by Mexico's XERF. just across the Rio Grande from Del Rio. Texas. XERF's transmitter boasts 250,000 watts, five times more than any U.S. station is permitted, and it can even be heard across the Canadian border. Moreover. XERF is gloriously free of the restrictions that the FCC puts on U.S. stations. Such a setup seems made to order for huckstering baubles, panaceas-and marked-up thingumabobs that cannot get airspace in the U.S. -and it is. But XERF's prime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Schlockministers | 9/8/1961 | See Source »

Late in that month, a 'Cliffe heard at demitasse that diplomas had been switched from hallowed Latin to upstart English. She passed on the information to her roommate, a member of the CRIMSON, who promptly printed the story. President Pusey's widest nightmares were more than fulfilled by the ensuing controversy. The Administration's rational arguments made little sense to students: the Permanent Class Committee's plans made little sense to Massachusetts Hall. Undergraduates protested the switch mildly at first--the CRIMSON received nearly 50 letters in two days--and then they emphasized their dislike for the Faculty decision...

Author: By Claude E. Welch jr., | Title: Class of 1961: Disappointment To High Honor in Academics | 6/14/1961 | See Source »

...weekends). Eyes uplifted to a picture of the late Mayor La Guardia, a press-agent psalmed: "We like to think that the exuberant little man who championed his beloved city around the world would heartily approve of our making the musical comedy about him available to the widest and largest audience possible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Broadway: Onefers & Twofers | 5/12/1961 | See Source »

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