Word: finally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Shah Goes West. Next day he flew to Detroit in the presidential DC-6 Independence, was immediately hustled off in a long, gleaming motorcade to inspect automobile plants. At the Cadillac factory he asked final-assembly workers so many questions that cars began coming off the end of the line unfinished. He also appeared at two more dinners, greeted his kid brother Mahmoud, a tall, handsome senior at the University of Michigan, and startled a reporter who asked him what he thought of American women. "I see many of them in the streets," he said in puzzled tones...
Rifle-toting, steel-helmeted police stood guard this week while Conservative voters dutifully queued up to mark their ballots at the polls. In an uncontested election, the Conservative government was applying the final constitutional touch to its relentless drive to elevate its arch-conservative leader, Laureano Gómez, into Colombia's presidency...
...important. To him, the most important aspect of education is "just that intellectual and moral development of the person as a person which these educators believe is now outmoded." But Smith also found another tyrant besides society: science. According to modern educational dogma, science should be the final test of all action; all things outside it-"man's ingrained habit of setting up ethical and moral ideals, his belief that his own life must mean something and that the universe should 'make sense'"-are "prejudices...
...Scripps-Howard-controlled United Press, put the question: What about the imprisonment of Angus Ward? Said the President: an outrage. Then the State Department sent an appeal to 30 nations in Ward's behalf. A few days later Ward was free (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). In a final cartoon, Scripps-Howard assigned the credit to public opinion, the force it had done much to inform and arouse...
...Association, had not gone to somebody on the pennant-winning New York Yankees, e.g., Shortstop Phil Rizzuto or Relief Pitcher Joe Page. One reason: the voting took place a few days before the end of the season, before the collapse of the Red Sox and Slugger Williams in their final series with the Yankees...