Word: closed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...flew off to Ghana. Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah was at the Accra airport with bands, a 21-gun salute, and a cheering crowd bearing placards saying, WELCOME LABORMAN . . . LIBERATOR OF GUINEA! Toure had made no secret of the fact that he wanted intimate ties with Ghana. But just how close those ties were to be came as a real surprise...
...coup while Ismail was conferring in Cairo with Nasser. Khalil could depend on the army, since he personally conducted a purge in 1956. when every officer was "scrutinized for his political views." More important. Abboud's second-in-command. Major General Ahmed Abdel Wahab, is a close friend and relative of Khalil...
...blockaded Santiago (pop. 200.000), the rebels dare not take on the 3,000-man garrison commanded by Major General Eulogio Cantillo. the army's best tactician. They also fall back before the Staghound armored cars that rumble out of Santiago-but close in again like wraiths when the Staghounds rumble back...
...wanted their followers to vote on the party's own red-colored ballots so that Communist strength could be plainly exhibited. By granting his consent. Larrazaáal stands to gain an estimated 150,000 Red votes, which could be decisive if the three-way election is a close contest. Others in the race: Rómulo Betancourt. of the leftist Democratic Action Party: Rafael Caldera, of the Catholic COPEI Party...
Freedom. Says Philosopher T. V. Smith of Syracuse University: "I all but missed this professional career, and I shudder to think how close I came to that misfortune . . . We are as little as possible engaged in the power struggle. Our profession has managed to make of arduous work a pleasure by transmuting pressures into power-with, rather than power-over, others . . . Only those who know the military or have experienced the industrial form of organization will fully appreciate how lucky is our academic lot ... It is good, how good, to share the unearned increments of joy arising from continuous collaboration...