Word: electioneering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The Harvard Glee Club is scheduled today to approve the appointment of Eliot Forbes as acting conductor next year during G. Wallace Woodworth's sabattical next year. Nominations for Friday's election of officers will be made at the same meeting.
Following the election, the new Board of Directors held a formal meeting. Plans for next year, however, will be discussed sometime in June.
Diehard military men, bent on short-circuiting the sure election of Civilian Alberto Lleras Camargo as bipartisan President of Colombia, brazenly kidnaped five top Colombians last week. The victims: four of the five joint presidents who make up the military junta that dumped Dictator Gustavo Rojas Pinilla last May-and...
Together in the palace, Lleras and Piedrahita took stock. By telephone, Forero proclaimed his insurrection "a romantic movement to restore the honor of the armed forces." Apparently he hoped to bargain for postponement of the election and formation of a new junta. Rumors racing through town that Rojas Pinilla was...
Under the admiral's orders, army troops drove military policemen from the radio stations they had seized. Air force planes swooped low over Bogota's military barracks to discourage any wavering army units from joining the rebels. Then 1,000 infantrymen, backed by artillery and tanks, marched up...