Word: elections
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mateos rolled through Mexico City this week at the head of a giant parade of gaily decorated floats and charros (cowboys) on prancing horses. As they have since 1946, Mexicans will go to the polls next week and-barring an upset more sensational than Harry Truman's-elect the candidate of the Party of Revolutionary Institutions (P.R.I.) to a six-year term...
...tried unsuccessfully to win control of Fair banks, Morse. After Silberstein and Fair banks, Morse made their peace, Lawyer Landa rounded up Penn-Texas' dissident stockholders and continued the fight. Now he faces another fight of his own against a second group of stockholders, who want to elect their own management...
Staying On. The heart of London's cautious plan is that Cyprus is entitled to more self-government, but is in no condition for a change of ownership. Highlights: ¶ Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots would each elect a separate "communal assembly" to handle their own local problems, education and church affairs. ¶ The communal assemblies would in turn elect a Central Council to act as a kind of cabinet under a British governor. Representation on the Central Council would be in rough proportion to the population (400,000 Greek Cypriots, 100,000 Turkish Cypriots...
...over a filet mignon luncheon in the palace dining room. The two set a time-the week of Aug. 4-for a Brazilian visit by Secretary of State Dulles, and agreed to the idea of a conference of the Americas' foreign ministers, possibly in Bogota, where Colombian President-elect Alberto Lleras Camargo is to be inaugurated Aug. 7. Still in the discussion stage: a meeting of chiefs of state after the foreign ministers' conference...
Then the long march began. Xenophon rallied the panic-stricken Hellenes, got them to elect five new leaders-himself included-and fight their way to the sea. The heavily armed Greeks moved laboriously across the plain, while clouds of Persian cavalry showered them with arrows. The only way out was to turn north into the mountains of Kurdistan, whose warlike inhabitants had just chopped to pieces a Persian army of 112,000 men. In seven days of ceaseless fighting with the Kurds, the Greeks suffered more than in all their battles with the Persians...