Word: generale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With strong support in the grass roots, with a docile and hero-worshiping press and radio, Sandhurst-educated General Ayub Khan this week celebrated the first anniversary of his "benign dictatorship." Since peacefully overthrowing the corrupt and inefficient government of Iskander Mirza-which was democratic in name only-Ayub Khan has startled his countrymen and Western observers by fulfilling nearly every promise he made...
Since the war, the Australian economy has expanded nearly threefold, and "production would not have been possible without the immigrants, who make up half our 19,000 employees," says an executive of General Motors-Holden's, the G.M. subsidiary that makes 50% of Australia's vehicles. Half of the country's steelworkers and almost two-thirds of the workers on the billion dollar Snowy Mountains hydroelectric irrigation complex in New South Wales are, as fellow union members call them, "new blokes." Although some have slowed their work to the notorious prewar "Australian crawl," the overall impact...
...None of the three regions is likely to get the absolute majority needed to rule all Nigeria by itself, but a Northern-Eastern coalition could make Zik the first federal Prime Minister; the North's Sardauna appears to have his own eyes on the dignified post of Governor General...
...will strive to get a slice of Vincent's estimated $120 million fortune, Brooke Astor told of Vincent's deep feeling for J. J.: "Nothing but contempt." Captain Astor, a Navy officer in both World Wars, regarded J. J., said Brooke Astor, daughter of a Marine Corps general, as "the most useless and worthless member of society, and he despised him because he was a slacker and a draft evader...
...morning last week the Associated Press got a request by longdistance telephone from the Minneapolis Star: could A.P. take color pictures of General George C. Marshall's funeral, airship the developed film from Washington to Minneapolis that same night? The A.P. could and did. Next morning at 10:20, right on schedule, five big Star presses rolled. On Page One: a five-column, four-color picture showing the flag-draped casket and its uniformed pallbearers, the pearl-grey columns of Washington Cathedral, the green trees and the blue...