Word: electioneering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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NEWS is also relative. The impact of one event is invariably shaped by the force of others. Thus, when the Protestant Episcopal Church in the U.S. elected a new presiding bishop last October, that election, while duly reported in TIME and elsewhere, was overshadowed by news from Rome: the death...
Even as with crowned kings, De Valera had his griefs. Above all, he had failed to achieve the two goals closest to his heart: the unity of Ireland and the revival of Gaelic as the national tongue. But nobody thought for a minute that he would now fail to get...
In India Prime Minister Nehru's handsome 41-year-old daughter, Indira Gandhi, emerged as the leading candidate for the presidency of the Congress Party, a post held previously by both her father and her grandfather. A veteran politician and a sloe-eyed, animated woman, Indira is married to...
AFTER every debauch, someone must pick up - the pieces and arrange to pay the damages. In Argentina, nearly bankrupt after a giddy decade under Dictator Juan Perón, the cleanup man is dour, professorial Arturo Frondizi, 50, the country's 31st President. Frondizi is the successor to Provisional...
Undergraduate interest in the Council has gradually dwindled to the point where several of this year's representatives were elected unopposed. Nor was this situation due to the presence of several overwhelmingly popular candidates, but rather, in some cases, to an absence of any candidates at all, until the very...