Word: cannonism
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...which forbids foreigners to contribute to election campaigns. U.S. business interests in the islands anted up some $250.000 at a time when Magsaysay's Nationalist Party was seriously short of funds. On election day. 25 U.S. officers were sprinkled around polling areas by Major General Robert M. Cannon to ''observe" units of the Filipino army on election day. and a platoon of U.S. foreign correspondents, dispersed through the islands, helped protect Filipinos against monkey business at the polls...
...CANNON big enough to knock down heavily armored enemy planes may soon replace the machine guns on U.S. Air Force jet fighters. The Air Force has given Buffalo Arms, Inc. of Buffalo, N.Y. the first contract ($4,000,000) for a new fast-firing, 30-mm. aircraft cannon whose projectile is nearly three times bigger than that now used in the .50-cal. machine guns...
...Crimson slipped and slid to a 2 to 1 triumph over the Engineers in mud which made a cannon ball out of the soccer ball and covered the players from head to foot by the time of the final...
Commissar. Ernst Reuter was the symbol of his city's will to be free, and of his nation's will to unite. He stood where worlds collide, and was not dwarfed; he gazed down the cannon's throat and refused to be afraid. West Berlin is still a far-flung outpost, tempest-lashed in a Red sea. Cold war is its way of life and the Iron Curtain its backyard fence, yet in five years as mayor, Reuter refused to accept his city as an island. "Call it a spearhead," he said with a faint grin...
...students are: Paul D. Sheats '54, president of the Student Council; Mark W. Cannon, treasurer of the Graduate Student Council; William W. Abbott, Business School; Richard Rosenthal, Design School; J. Frank Schulman, Divinity School; Norman R. Dixon, School of Education; Andrew L. Kaufman, president of the Law Review; Lawrence C. Thum and Thomas F. O'Brien, Medical School; Robert W. Clubb, Dental School; Dalmas Nelson, School of Public Administration; and Dr. Trawisk H. Stubbs and Young B. Moon, School of Public Health...