Word: 47th
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...city of Wuhan is still in open rebellion, with army units probably aiding the anti-Maoists, the region's navy and air force units loyal to Peking. In Kwangtung province, adjoining Hong Kong, a key transshipment point for Viet Nam, thousands of troops of the 47th Chinese Army surround the capital city of Canton, while elements of three other armies have moved in, presumably to wrest parts of the province back from anti-Mao rebels who control it. Szechwan, China's chief granary, is torn in two and in a state of virtual civil war: anti-Maoists hold...
...Bolivia, Rene Barrientos, 47, ex-Air Force general who deposed President Victor Paz Estenssoro two years ago, was inaugurated as Bolivia's 47th President. With massive support from the country's long-neglected campesinos, Barrientos' motley coalition party of leftists and rightists swept into power with 100 of Congress' 129 seats, promising more of the same firm, reform-minded government that began with Barrientos' military junta. In his inaugural speech, Barrientos assigned top priority to creating 10,000 new jobs in private fields; building scores of new schools and hospitals and at least...
...Rene Barrientos is a swinger who flies his own DC-3, likes the girls so much that until very recently he maintained two families at once. Barrientos also has the kind of charisma that wins votes, and last week he was elected in a landslide as Bolivia's 47th President...
Brink of an Abyss. At week's end, in a brief ceremony at the National Palace in downtown Santo Domingo, García-Godoy was officially installed as his country's 47th President. He is, by all accounts, an able, well-regarded man: a middle-of-the-road liberal and a foreign minister under ex-President Juan Bosch. "We are a country," said García-Godoy in his inaugural speech, "at the brink of an abyss. We must react with honest administration, intensive popular education, the establishment of a civil service, an agrarian reform, an armed forces...
Toward the end of the 47th revolution, he scored a space first-the visual sighting of a missile launching. "I see it, I see it," cried Conrad, as the 60-ft. Minuteman burst through the clouds over Vandenberg A.F.B. The Air Force had timed the lift-off to test whether Gemini 5 could locate and photograph such an operation. Several revolutions later, the astronauts spotted a second Minuteman launch from Vandenberg...