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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thus entrenched, Chandler let it be known that his presidential ambitions are not to be taken lightly. "We think now a deadlock [at the national convention] is definitely certain," he said. "We are shooting for the top spot. If a deadlock occurs, this may be our time." Seeking a psychological...
The official program of the Republican National Convention was on the presses. "Peace, Progress, Prosperity" read the slogan on the cover; "Unity" read the label near the top. The illustration: a photograph that at first glance looked like unity, all right. It was a famed sculpture by France's...
San Francisco's Republican Mayor George Christopher and Edward V. Mills, chairman of the Host Committee for the convention, took one horrified look and sprang into action. "I wouldn't say," reckoned the mayor, "that it's a very healthy way to depict the Republican Party." Eying...
Greece, whose ties with its NATO allies have been badly strained by the conflict over Cyprus, should have offered Shepilov ideally troubled waters in which to fish. On the Cyprus issue, however, his hands were tied by Russian reluctance to offend Turkey. (The Montreux Convention, which gives the U.S.S.R. access...
The question of a constituent convention, he explained, is still being studied. But before the elections a new voting law will be drawn "to replace the fraud" enacted under the regime of Juan Perón. To prove his impartiality, Aramburu emphasized that neither he nor any member of the...