Word: general
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last dictator in South America sat in his ramshackle, century-old Asunción palace, weighed his chances of survival and decided last week that they lay in loosening his iron grip. After five years, poker-playing Lieut. General Alfredo Stroessner Matiauda, 46, announced a turn toward democracy...
...blue convertible escorted by plumed lancers down troop-lined streets to the Congress building, to make his yearly state-of-the-nation speech. There he announced his "aim of perfecting a durable, democratic regime." He said the government would introduce bills to lift the state of siege, proclaim a general political amnesty, lift restrictions on freedom of expression, adopt a new constitution...
...abusing power and enriching himself in office (TIME, March 30), the Colombian Senate last week abolished all Rojas' political rights, all his titles and honors. As he signed a document to acknowledge the sentence. Rojas automatically lost his monthly pension as a former President, his rank as lieutenant general, and his proud chest of trinkets, including the Order of Boyacá, the Military Cross, the Order of Admiral Padilla, the Police Star (in the degree of Grand Extraordinary Civic Star), the Cross of Aeronautical Merit, the Order of Sanitary Merit and the Order of June 13 (created by Rojas...
...legs. Idle in the movies since 1955's How To Be Very, Very Popular ("It was a turkey"), she had allowed herself to be talked into preparing a nightclub routine for the plush, high-priced Hollywood-Las Vegas-New York-Miami circuit. Explained the Latin Quarter's General Manager Ed Risman: "We booked her because of nostalgia." But for a packed house at her opening in New York, it was the night the old nostalgia burned down...
...because his patients had been healthy before the accident, then had suddenly received such a whopping jolt of radiation that it could not fail to knock out their marrow function-including antibody formation. Frozen marrow keeps for at least six months; if it can be kept longer, general bone-marrow banks may become practical. In any case, Dr. Jammet suggested, people working around reactors might have some of their own marrow removed and stored as a precaution...