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...taking into account the fervor of fútbol fans, why had this happened? Jorge Basadre, Peru's foremost historian, tried an answer: "Our people, especially our lower classes, are full of tensions and frustrations, dark, pent-up passions and angers. This situation is becoming acute under the impact of the population explosion and the poverty of the masses. Add to this the Communist contagion. These people have lost some of their faith and hope. When this happens, then sometimes people will behave more like brutes than...
...charges his thin, unpainterly work, stronger in thought than technique, with static neurosis. He uses the color red liberally because, says he, it "has a sort of unrelated strength and isn't seen much in nature." He uses doorways and chairs in abundance. "An empty chair has great impact," he notes. "Sometimes I think chairs are thrown out because there is so much of a person in it that he can't stand it any longer." He likes to point out that psychiatrists admire his work. His painted desert provokes the viewer to questions like unverbal, mysterious charades...
Even more exciting than the see-as-you-talk phone to the nation's businessmen and economists is the impact of A.T.&T.'s spend-as-you-grow plans. As proof of its faith in the economy, A.T.&T. in 1964 will undertake the largest program of expansion and modernization ever launched by any company in history. The $3.35 billion that the company will spend will account for 71% of all capital spending by U.S. business, create 180,000 new jobs in supplier companies and do much to keep the U.S. economy's greatest period of peacetime...
...attempting an over-all evaluation of this past history, the committee felt that the first statement should be one about achievements. We believe that the General Education Program has had substantial impact on Harvard and Radcliffe students and that this impact has been valuable in most instances...
Finally, the program will include teaching seminars in the graduate schools and conferences designed to acquaint businessmen and government officials with research findings and suggested action programs developed under the program. In a further attempt to broaden the program's impact, selected working papers and symposia will be published as books or monographs...