Word: backwards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thoroughly enjoyed the short story Romance, by Joyce Gary [TIME, Oct. 20], and I know that matters of factual accuracy should never be picked over in a work of art. But either Mr. Gary knows nothing about babies, or else his fictional one is unusually backward. Who ever heard of a baby able to crawl and yet just beginning to learn how to turn over on his stomach...
...companies in 1938. The three nationalized companies-Patińo,* Hochschild, Aramayo-produce 72% of the country's tin. Though Bolivia now mines only 15% of the world's tin, it still accounts for virtually all that is produced in the Western Hemisphere. And tin is still backward Bolivia's one cash crop, providing 80% of the country's foreign exchange. Last week's decree set a tentative valuation on the expropriated properties of $21,750,000-barely a third of what the companies think their investments in Bolivia are worth...
...spite of H. R. Cullen and Jesse Jones, Texas is essentially a poor state and backward in many respects . . . The vast majority of our people, the low-income group, are not opposed to New Deal measures other than the attempts to promote racial equality. They have benefited greatly from the Democratic programs, and will probably stay with the party if it promises to continue these programs. The ultra-conservatives are really not typical of the state as a whole...
...General Assembly Building in New York as representatives of 60 nations filed in for their seventh session. The African-Asian countries were prepared to insist that the Tunisian nationalists be heard. The French felt that they were being put on trial before the world largely by a collection of backward, undemocratic states whose plumbing, politics and sense of public order are far worse than those of Morocco or Tunisia. The U.S., divided between its desire to please an ally and its sentimental aversion to the old fighting word "colonialism," was in a tough spot...
Suttee, the old Hindu custom of widow's suicide on the funeral pyre, has been banned in India since 1829; today it occurs rarely and then only in inaccessible villages in backward regions. No one had expected to see the rite performed in the large, well-kept Rajasthan capital of Jaipur (pop. 175,000). One day last week Shroff Ballabhdas, a prosperous banker and coin appraiser of Jaipur, died. His fair and dainty widow Chhimi, 35, mother of five children, put on her many jewels, donned her finest mauve silk sari and announced that she would throw herself...