Word: elective
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lebanon. The election of General Fuad Chehab to the presidency relaxed tension but did not end it. Lebanese rebels insist on remaining under arms until President Camille Chamoun steps down and U.S. troops depart; Chamoun, not to be outdone, insists on serving out his term to the final minute on Sept. 23. President-elect Chehab ducked all responsibility: the opposition wildly protested the return of Dr. Charles Malik as Lebanon's U.N. representative, and Dr. Malik wanted Chehab's endorsement before leaving for Manhattan. Chehab, as usual, was cagily silent. As a brutal reminder that the rebel-enforced...
Into the Cabinet. President-elect Eisenhower, bent on upgrading the U.N. in U.S. foreign policy and strengthening the U.S. voice in the U.N., looked around for an international-minded Republican who could do what a U.S. chief delegate to the U.N. has to do: think fast, speak fluently, argue persuasively, and be charming. Cabot Lodge seemed just the man. To (give Lodge extra prestige and a voice in the policymaking, Ike made him a "personal member" of his Cabinet (Lodge's predecessor, Vermont's ex-Senator Warren Austin, had no Cabinet status). As a favor to Lodge...
...palace Chamoun quickly announced-with President-elect Chehab's evident concurrence-that he would stay in office until his term ends in September, and that Chehab would meanwhile remain army commander. The opposition repeated its demands that U.S. forces withdraw and that Chamoun resign at once, and cynically backed up its threats to continue the rebellion until these demands are met, by setting off a pair of bombs near Parliament next afternoon. Score: 2 dead, 15 wounded...
...first reluctant to spend as much time away from the Radiation Lab as his new job will require, Chancellor-elect Seaborg has pledged himself to "keep uppermost in.mind the crucial and classical function of a university in society: to foster free inquiry and teaching under the highest possible standards of objective scholarship." But many scientists will still wonder whether one of the world's best chemists should pour himself into the world of university management-which, even at one of the best campuses in the nation, consists largely of parking problems, building plans and ruffled regents...
Even the most enthusiastic advocates of statehood realized that stern tests of responsibility had just begun. Along with the statehood referendum, Alaska will hold political primaries next month, elect two U.S. Senators, a U.S. Representative, a Governor and a secretary of state in November. Key job: the governorship, with great power under the new Alaska constitution, including that of some 200 pivotal appointments. Would G.O.P.-appointed Territorial Governor Mike Stepovich (TIME, June 9) make the grade at the polls? He is popular enough even though Alaska is Democratic-minded. But if he fails, he can find comfort...