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Chile was getting another lesson in a familiar contemporary Latin American pattern. Poverty made Communists; Communists used poverty to advance their political ends; reactionaries answered with repressive measures that perpetuated poverty...
...pattern was as old as the South. Just before 5 a.m. the armed men arrived at the jail in Pickens (pop. 2,866). Shotguns leveled, they demanded 25-year-old Negro Willie Earle, suspected of robbing and killing a Greenville taxi driver. An hour and 45 minutes later, the sheriff was called to identify the slashed and blasted body of Willie Earle. It was the South's first lynching this year; the first in South Carolina since...
...affairs of the world at present seem to be in a hopeless jumble, but if well-informed persons study them long enough, an understandable pattern is bound to appear. Authoritative information, however, is a prerequisite to this, and magazines like TIME and institutions like the Cleveland Council on World Affairs are indispensable...
...Nell placed third in the playwright preferences of the interviewees. Behind O'Nell followed Noel C. Coward, Henrick Ibsen, Oscar Wilde, Maxwell Anderson, Clifford Odets, Anton Chekov, and Thornton Wilder. stated, "There was an almost intense monotony of response, which may perhaps be indicative of the stereotyped taste pattern of American audiences in general, and more particularly a definite escapist sentiment...
Both the gold-plated Air Line Pilots Association and T.W.A. seemed satisfied with the board's decisions, which they had agreed in advance to accept. Most other airlines expected that the new wage scale would provide a pattern for all airlines. For T.W.A. and the other major airlines, the increases would be moderate...