Word: general
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...General Ayub Khan
After eight months of cleaning out the political stables, the military government of General Mohammed Ayub Khan was ready to make future plans...
After short, chubby Abbe Fulbert Youlou maneuvered his way into power as the new Congo Republic's first Premier last November, he felt in no position to test his strength in a popular vote. His archrival, Jacques Opangault, who barely missed getting the job himself, persistently demanded general elections, but Premier Youlou refused, using his meager majority of one vote in the Legislative Assembly to proclaim himself in control until 1962. The political squabble touched off bloody rioting that in February left more than 100 dead in Brazzaville's native quarters...
...dead of night, vandals sneaked into a Bridgeport, Conn, cemetery, made off with a marble statue of "General" Tom Thumb (1838-83), whom P. T. Barnum glorified as the most exhibited midget of all time. Swiping the grave marker was quite a feat: the stone Thumb stood atop a 3O-ft. pedestal, weighs...
...little man in the front row was so short that his primly polished brown shoes barely touched the floor. Eyes blinking behind rimless glasses, he strained last week to catch every word at the Senate Communications Subcommittee hearing. There was much at stake for Homer A. Tomlinson, 66, the general overseer of the Church of God sect and self-proclaimed king of the world. He intends to run for President of the U.S. again in 1960 (his big white Panama campaign hat was at his side), and the subcommittee was struggling to find a way to keep Homer and other...