Word: 135th
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Villeda Morales, freed from the time-honored obligation of leading what would have been Honduras' 135th revolution, said in relief: "The presidency is not worth the life of a single Honduran." President Lozano converted Congress into a Council of State to draft a new constitution under which another, and more decisive election can be attempted - but probably not before...
...score as they placed 82nd and 124th respectively. Don French, who took a surprising third in the Heptagonals last week for the Crimson, was stricken ill the night before the race. He kept up with the leaders for the first mile but then had to drop back to finish 135th. Had he been well, the varsity might have been among the first ten teams...
Lenin had his Leningrad and Stalin his Stalingrad. Last week Karl Marx got his grad, with a German accent. To celebrate the 135th anniversary of Karl Marx's birth, East Germany's Red rulers bestowed a dubious blessing on the smoke-begrimed industrial city of Chemnitz (pop. 550,-ooo), admitting as they did so that there was "great opposition." Henceforth, 800-year-old Chemnitz would be known as Karl-Marx-Stadt...
Omnibus (Sun. 4:30 p.m., CBS). Ethel Barrymore in Tennessee Williams' Lord Byron's Love Letter; George Gershwin's 135th Street...
...tire change cost Vukovich the lead, to Ruttman, in the 135th lap; 11 laps later, for the same reason, Ruttman lost it back to Vukovich. And so it went, in a nip & tuck race. With only 50 miles to go, Vukovich, setting new speed records all along the line, had a fairly substantial (31 seconds) lead, but he could see from information flagged from his pit that Ruttman was gaining...