Word: bals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Before the 48th annual convention of the Investment Bankers Association of America last week in Bal Harbour, Fla., outgoing President William D. Kerr posed a challenge: "I visualize a titanic struggle between the forces that would foster and perpetuate our local governments and our right to the well-known freedoms and those who would turn these United States into a huge federal omnibus in which the individual would be reduced to being a number in a file...
...Gaulle has practically reinstituted the rites of a medieval court in a modern setting. There have been periodic shows of pomp: the Fourteenth of July was "the biggest ever," with fireworks, parades, and dancing in the streets (at the Invalides, a massive amusement park called Le Plus Grand Bal du Monde operated from 4 p.m. to 4 a.m. throughout the four-day week-end); the French Community of Nations was initiated in grandiose ceremony, and the various African dignitaries who comprise the Community Senate are made much of on their frequent visits to Paris...
Betancourt's victory was a stunning setback for Venezuela's Communists, who backed non-Communist Admiral Larrazábal. With a wild barrage of slogans and Red banners, they whipped the party faithful and fellow travelers into line in Caracas, helped him win a 5-to-1 victory in the capital. But the loud Red noise apparently scared many rightist supporters of Caldera, a certain also-ran, into voting for anti-Communist Rómulo Betancourt as the best conservative choice...
...Bequest of Trouble. Moreover, while Larrazábal and his Communist cohorts were sewing up the Federal District, Betancourt's A.D. had been at work in Venezuela's hinterlands. The near-final returns: Betancourt 1,264,000, Larrazábal (who ran under the colors of another leftist party as well as on the Communist ticket) 898,000, Caldera 422,000. On their own ballot, for congressional seats, the Communists polled 160,000 votes...
...Balky Army. Even after his solid win, there were nagging doubts whether Betancourt would be allowed to get on with the job. Mobs of Caracas' solidly pro-Larrazábal citizens followed shouting young slum toughs and Communist agitators into the streets. For two days they ran wild, ignoring Larrazábal's sportsmanlike concession of defeat-big news itself in a continent accustomed to ending vote counts with cries of fraud. Only a cloud of army tear gas stopped them. And although Ground Forces Commander Marco Aurelio Moros declared himself "sure that the armed forces will respect...