Word: anyway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nothing to Lose. Some Brazilians like to think that Brazil has stumbled onto some miracle of economic alchemy. "It is like the bumblebee," says Publisher Manuel de Vasconcelos. "According to the laws of aerodynamics, the bumblebee cannot fly. But the bumblebee ignores the law, and flies anyway." Deliberately, President Juscelino Kubitschek ignores usual standards of fiscal stability and gambles instead on a revolution of development. "Fifty years of progress in five," he promises...
...When the school board's three Faubusites dutifully heeded their sponsor fortnight ago, the script was switched by the three moderate members. To keep the teacher purge from being legal, the moderates walked out of a board meeting, and there was no quorum. The Faubusites fired the teachers anyway, and Little Rock erupted: 179 angry citizens organized STOP (the Committee to Stop This Outrageous Purge). Using a new anti-integration law rammed through last fall by Faubus himself, STOP flooded the city last week with petitions for a recall election of the Faubusite board members. In three days STOP...
When Kassem's army asked Britain to supply a big order of heavy weapons (centurion tanks, Canberra jets) of the sort that Iraq regularly got from Britain before the revolution, the British government mulled things over, decided to give British munitions firms the go-ahead. Anyway, most arms will not be delivered until early next year...
...said one British official, "the Iraqis can get the arms directly from Communist sources, and we have gained nothing.'' Added another official: "If it is going to be a case of British soldiers or British allies being killed with British arms, then that will come about anyway, because the Iraqi army is now almost entirely equipped with British arms...
Technically, 323 is a fine production. There are some sloppy layouts in the section on professors, a few typographical slip-ups, and some inexcusable group photographs (though group photographs are deadly dull anyway). But the artistic standards are generally high and generally fulfilled. The fact that neither the articles nor the photographs are credited to particular individuals bars some from praise and saves others from censure...