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Bolivia is packed with such stark contrasts. It is a country of majestic mountain scenery and miserable human squalor, of tremendous natural resources and examples of their wretched neglect and abuse. To the west, condors soar over abandoned Spanish silver mines near icy, blue Titicaca, highest navigable lake in the world; in the remote east, ranchers graze their gaunt herds in a jungle reputed to be floating on oil. The Bolivian land itself is split in two-the barren, windswept uplands, fenced about by the snowy Andes; and the vast, green east, an unpopulated, trackless region of plains and jungle...
Barbar Burt, SG: Stanley Cavell, 2G; Richard Reche, '50 3G: Anne Cook, '53; David L., Stark, '53; Martin J. Wohi...
...Scottish-English ancestry. His father, Watts S. Humphrey, was a lawyer. After taking engineering courses along the way, George graduated from the University of Michigan law school in 1912, became the second Humphrey in his father's firm (Humphrey, Grant & Humphrey) in Saginaw. In 1913, he married Pamela Stark, his school-day sweetheart. They have two daughters and a son (another son died), and eight grandchildren...
...dispassionate fashion. You can say to a man 'I thoroughly disagree with your judgment.' But you disagree with a woman's judgment and you disagree with the woman." To the dis- tress of the women and their clerical allies, the objectors won. Commented the Rev. Leland Stark of Washington, B.C.: "Every argument used against this resolution was urged against suffrage." Said...
...Angeles schools found it handy, but to the leagues, legions, and committees it was a stark example of red infiltration. The battlecry sounded, and from all parts of the state the super-patriots came, brandishing their copies of McCarthyism (the Senator's version) and denouncing...