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...pattern for the next few months was becoming clear. As of this week, these were the best guesses, from the men in Washington who should know, of what lies immediately ahead for U.S. citizens...
...Ubico's downfall reduced the "Dictators' Club" of Central America to half its former membership. Dictator Maximiliano Hernández Martínez of El Salvador fell last May before a popular strike which set the pattern for Guatemala. The two survivors, Dictator Tiburcio Carías of Honduras and Dictator Anastasio Somoza of Nicaragua, were seriously threatened by the wave of unarmed strikes sweeping Latin America...
...public doesn't get cold to his style while he's resting up from "Lassic Comes Home," Twentieth Century Fox, Shirley Temple's studio, has come up with a substitute, Lonnie MacCallister by name, and has filmed a heart warming, technicolored-trotting-race-carbon copy of the MacDowell pattern...
...shops, whose drawers are often full of fossils, he found three astounding fossil teeth. They were six times as big as a modern man's molars, twice as big as a gorilla's. Koenigswald thought they were an ape's. But Weidenreich is sure, from the pattern of their "biting surfaces, that they are definitely human. He has named this man monster, who was certainly much larger than a gorilla, Gigantanthropus...
Story of a Story of a Story. The Joseph books almost require a second reading. Readers will be likely to enjoy this big book only when they have looked back upon the immense pattern of the story, the array of characters-Joseph himself, his father, Jacob, his brothers, the scribes and stewards of Egypt, the courtly eunuch Potiphar, his sexually frustrated wife, the two dwarfs (in whom Mann personifies the principles of ineffectual goodness and potent evil), Pharaoh, the sermons of the bald-pated Egyptian priests, the astronomy, history, architecture, concepts of life & death-and the similarities and differences...