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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...known, is evidently ex portable. The soldiers who seized power in neighboring Bolivia last week quickly promised land reform, recognition of "socialist countries" and a left-wing policy. Said General Alfredo Ovando Candia, 51, the junta strongman and new President: "It is our wish to establish a sort of confederation with the Peruvian military regime...
Ovando's first acts were the sort designed to pacify his juniors. He named a "really revolutionary" civilian-military Cabinet whose oldest member is 44. He scrapped the code under which Gulf operates in Bolivia as "prejudicial," emulating Peru's recent takeover of the International Petroleum Co., a subsidiary of Standard Oil of New Jersey. Gulf, which now pays Bolivia 30% of its profits and 11 % of the oil it pumps, may be pressured to hand over part ownership of the subsidiary...
...recent book, The Davis Cup, Author Edward Potter makes Dwight Davis sound like some sort of Olympian grease monkey. Potter means well...
...here accompanies and reveals the hidden thunder of Bellows' Both Members of This Club. Again, it was DuBois who wrote the classic prose statement of what lies deepest in black blues: "After the Egyptian and Indian, the Greek and Roman, the Teuton and Mongolian, the Negro is a sort of seventh son born with a veil and gifted with second sight in this American world-a world which yields him no true self-consciousness, but only lets him see himself through the revelation of the other world. It is a peculiar sensation, this double consciousness, this sense of always...
Though The Bible Reader has yet to be tested in court, it seems to overcome the other objections to a remarkable degree. Rather than disguise the Bible as a vague sort of cultural literature, the authors do in fact treat it as the central spiritual experience in the lives of the Hebrews, and later, in the lives of Christians. Jewish critics will be mollified by the rich Jewishness of the commentary. Rabbinical interpretations are frequent; renowned authorities like Rabbis Hillel, Gamaliel and Samson Raphael Hirsch are quoted. The Hebrews' escape from Egypt leads to a description of the Passover...