Word: electioneering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Only one major question was involved: Did the Gomulka government still command enough respect to bring voters out in large numbers for a national election? A year ago an impressive 94% of eligible voters turned out for the parliamentary elections to give Gomulka a solid vote of confidence. In the...
As usual, vodka sales were banned on election day and, dressed in Sunday best, most voters went straight from Mass to the apartment houses, factories, country shops or town halls where dignified local polling officials kept potbellied stoves stoked against the biting cold. Parents came to vote with small children...
Having failed to crush Rebel Fidel Castro in the hills, President Fulgencio Batista turned to politics to break the stalemate. Last week his Progressive Action Party designated a candidate for the June 1 elections; barring a Castro military victory or some other upset, Batista's man is virtually certain...
A conservative lawyer named Mario Echandi, 42, won the presidency of Costa Rica last week from the quarreling heirs of left-of-center President José ("Don Pepe") Figueres. A tall, balding, eloquent man, who has promised to bring private capital back into such state-dominated fields as banking, power...
Businessmen were delighted with the victory for free enterprise. Taking defeat with his usual aplomb, Pepe declared: "I showed them how to run a country; now I'll show them how to oppose." First task for Oppositionist Figueres: patching up differences with maverick Rossi, who perhaps drained off enough...