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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...reactionary coups that took place in 1948 and 1949 in Peru, Venezuela and Panama, and the degeneration of the political situation in Colombia gave occasion to the critics who think all is lost whenever they see evidence that all is not won . . . [Such critics] have propagated a common delusion that democracy is the absence of dictators. They have thoughtlessly given dictatorship the positive and democracy the negative position; and on that basis they have assumed that democracy could be attained by the revolutionary overthrow of dictators. That, in a schoolboy's misconception of our history, is the meaning...
...achievement of greater democracy depends on [Latin American] experience in exercising, of themselves, the responsibility of adult nations. We should, as occasion allows, take them into our confidence and seek their advice as equals. We must continue to cooperate with them as friends for the common objectives of improving life and securing human freedom in the hemisphere, and not for motives that would discredit our cooperation...
Italy's Giorgio de Chirico is the grandpa of a lot of enigmatic modern painting. His empty squares, staring arcades and twisted mannikins have become the common stage properties of surrealism. But De Chirico himself long ago abandoned surrealism for candy-box neoclassicism. So when Turin's Fiat motor corporation wanted to celebrate its golden anniversary, De Chirico seemed just the man to help out with a portrait of the 1950 Fiat...
Spokesmen for the companies, hastening to put in a commercial plug, were cheery and unchastened. As the Inhiston people saw it, the agreement meant that the FTC "now permits antihistamines to be advertised as a safe and effective treatment for symptoms of the common cold." Said Kenneth C. Royall, attorney for Ana-hist: "The stipulation permits the company to represent the efficacy of Anahist substantially as it has ... in the past. This includes the representation that when taken as directed Anahist is safe-as previously found by the Food & Drug Administration...
...Machines. The C.E.D. report, Drepared by a subcommittee headed by United Airlines' William A. Patterson, was not only a study of wages; it was also a common-sense blueprint to show low a socially responsible U.S. capitalism could achieve the full benefits of the industrial revolution it had wrought...