Word: writes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After casting his own vote last week (a write-in for a friend. Diplomat Isidro Fabela), López Mateos went to inspect a new wing on his walled home in the expensive Pedregal district of Mexico City. He chatted with newsmen, looked in at the garage, where a 1958 Lincoln and 1957 Chrysler have replaced his old, modest Fiat. He promised a "down to the peso" accounting of his assets before entering office Dec. 1 and again upon leaving it. For Mexico he promised only a smooth bossing of the current combination of state and private enterprise...
...strict? Or do you think your parents are too lenient? Give the reasons why.' . . . Frankly, I don't think it's anybody's business how we handle our children; especially, it is not for our 13-year-old daughter to sit down and ponder and write about her parents' at-home techniques. Suppose she decides we are entirely too strict. Does she call us into the living room for a friendly but constructive chat, or does she discuss us with her teacher-or what...
Concluded Mrs. Cronin: "If anybody has the answers, please-write, wire, phone. Do something...
...every word of the ten-page paper, and since they speak no English, regularly speckle the World with gaudy and sometimes bawdy typos. His general manager is a converted taxi driver; his star photographer was once his houseboy. Worst of all. most of Berrigan's Thai reporters cannot write English. After they cover a story, Berrigan has to debrief them in a game of delicate ploy and diffident counterploy. Sample...
Indiana University's slight, white-haired Kenneth Powers Williams, 70, who began teaching mathematics at Indiana in 1909, since 1944 has found a second field of excellence-writing Civil War history. That year he decided to follow an old interest, write a short book on the war's last year. Commencing work at 6 a.m., teaching classes in an authoritative, no-nonsense fashion in the afternoon and writing more history at night, Mathematician-Historian Williams began to produce something far different-an orderly, exhaustive study of Northern command: Lincoln Finds a General. With two volumes out, the work...