Word: default
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fred Hovde of Purdue University, "in the doctrine of opportunity. If students fail, they at least know they've had their chance." To Headmaster Seymour St. John of Choate, mere "quickness of mind" may become far too important. "Is there not a hazard," he asks, "of neglecting by default other vital factors in a student's makeup?" Adds Admissions Director Robert Jackson of Oberlin: "You have to leave the door open for the Winston Churchills. It is said of him that on the basis of his school record, he wouldn't be admitted to any college today...
Handicap. In Cincinnati. Mrs. Mabel Russell told the judge she paid Russell E. Thomas $25, plus $425 expenses, for half interest in a horse he described as so fast it "could win on only three legs,'' won a $750 default judgment against Thomas on her testimony that in its first race the horse fell down and ran last, would have run last in its second if another horse had not fallen...
...five years Japan's "Little Stalin" was a teak-jawed, cold-eyed ex-factory worker named Shigeo Shida. All other top Communists had fled to China after General MacArthur ordered a crackdown on Communists in 1950. Shida stayed, went underground and took over command by default. A hardened revolutionary with a taste for cold-blooded intrigue and a record of twelve years in prison, Shida built up a strong following among the younger, tougher comrades. He appointed himself chief of the party's "military committee," decreed a policy of unflinching violence. "We must always be prepared to give...
...Falange ballots and hindered the Falange campaign. Retorted the M.N.R. weekly Combate: Unzaga gave up simply because he realized he could not win. To be on the safe side, the government moved 3,000 militiamen into La Paz before election day, just in case the opposition tried to turn default into revolt...
...Governor John W. Brown for the Republican nomination. Biggest surprise in Ohio: the failure of Lausche, unopposed in the primary (as was his Republican senatorial opponent, George Bender), to capture all of the state's 58 delegates to the Democratic National Convention. Lausche lost three delegates (one by default) in his home county of Cuyahoga (Cleveland), another outstate...