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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fifty-Fifty for Peace. Colombia's Conservatives and Liberals went to the elections to pick a Congress, the first after nine years of dictatorship and state of siege. They voted under a very special set of ground rules devised by Laureano Gómez and Liberal Leader Alberto Lleras Camargo. Because Colombian political strife runs readily to bloodshed, the parties agreed to split the seats in Congress exactly half and half...
...that party's 50% share of 80 Senate and 148 Chamber of Deputies seats. The total vote-1,800,000 for all Liberals, v. 1,400,000 for all Conservatives-clearly showed Lleras' party to be Colombia's biggest. In the intra-Conservative election, Laureano Gómez' chief opponent was moderate-minded Guillermo Len Valencia, who played a bold role last May in dethroning Military Dictator Gustavo Rojas Pinilla (the man who toppled Gómez in 1953). Of the Conservatives' 40 Senate seats, the Gómez group won (depending on the final...
Next President? Defeat of his faction was a blow to León Valencia. Last year, seeking to amplify the parties' fifty-fifty nonaggression principle to include the presidency, Lleras Camargo and an anti-Gómez faction of the Conservatives agreed upon León Valencia as a single candidate for the presidential election set for May 4. But Gómez, on his return from Spain, forced Lleras to reopen the question and agree that unless León Valencia won the approval of a majority of the new Congress, he would no longer be the joint...
...either Lleras Camargo or Gómez had a replacement candidate in mind, the name remained his own secret...
Merry Andrew (M-G-M). Danny Kaye is like Aladdin's lamp. Only when an audience rubs him the right way can the genie come out. No audience, no magic; and the cold glass eye of the camera is worse than no audience to an exquisite empathist like Kaye. But even in the worst of his pictures-and Merry Andrew is considerably better than that-Comedian Kaye exhibits the common trait of the greatest clowns, who are not funny because of what they do but because of what they...