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...knees." The unions used to be able to get handouts from the Kubitschek government. "Not any more." says Quadros' Labor Minister Francisco de Castro Neves. "I'm not playing games with them. I deal directly with democratic union leaders, and with nobody else. Already we have torn open the clenched fist of Communist control of many unions." Says Quadros himself: "Communists only profit from the ignorance that afflicts many of my countrymen. They have no interest whatsoever in a democratic and prosperous Brazil. They seek only to exploit misery...
Stephen LeRoy Honore, 23, a bright, energetic Urbana, Ohio, Negro who sings calypso and has long been torn between his scientific talents and a burgeoning humanitarian impulse. Son of a semiskilled truck-plant laborer. Honore was the first Negro to be elected student-body president at Capital University, a Lutheran school in a suburb of Columbus, where he got his B.S. in physics and math. A 1959 trip to Castro's Cuba in a National Students Association delegation was an eye-opener: "I saw these people in the rural areas living under the most adverse conditions while the rich...
...airplane that hits this invisible turbulence would be slammed upward and downward as if it had flown through a miniature thunderstorm. A light airplane flying through the core itself, says Mc-Gowan, "can experience loading conditions that exceed the design ultimate load factors," i.e., can be torn apart. Although no supersonic airliners are flying yet, McGowan looks forward to their take-off with some trepidation. Their wake will be strong enough to knock the wings off a good-sized commercial airliner...
...first lieutenant in the legal department. After the war, he became one of Justice Robert Jackson's bright young assistant prosecutors at the Nürnberg war-crimes trials. Returning to New York and moving into politics, he was elected to Congress in 1950. Torn between politics and his Lockport, N.Y. law practice, he nearly quit Congress in 1953. Instead, he took down his shingle and plunged full-time into his duties in the House, where he waged a dogged fight against public power projects (Niagara Falls and power-rich Niagara County are both in his home district...
...signature "F. Chopin." A poster for an exhibition commemorating the 40th anniversary of the founding of the Polish Communist Party is a subtle and muted tribute to those who once risked their lives for what was supposed to be a noble cause. It is a simple collage of a torn piece of red banner plus scraps of leaflets and crude slogans written hastily on a wall...