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Since the U.S. had held the director-generalship for nine years, U.S. delegates to the FAO meeting were at first reluctant to propose an American successor to Dr. Philip Cardon, who resigned last March-in part because of criticism from member governments. But in the absence of any other widely supported candidate, the U.S. proposed Dr. John H. Davis, professor at Harvard's School of Business Ad ministration and for a year an Assistant Secretary of Agriculture under President Eisenhower. Many expected Davis to win easily, but on the first ballot he got only 33 (out of 74) votes...
University sources were fairly unanimous in ascribing victory to the "fighting spirit" and superior field generalship of the Crimson, which caglly allowed Oregon to expend its energy near the middle of the field, but as soon as its goal was threatened, summoned enough resources to repulse the Westerners. Oregon rooters, however, claimed their team had decisively outplayed the Easterners and had only lost by a fluke...
...began to rule with a set of decrees which the Pakistan High Court has since challenged. But wanting to be strong, Ghulam Mohammed found his own body weak. Paralyzed by a series of strokes, and unable to speak clearly, last week he agreed to step down from the governor generalship...
...despises than all the politicians who promised a new heaven and earth to get votes." Today Mirza lives in a big house with ample grounds and cool white porticos in the center of Karachi with his second wife, a sophisticated Persian.* Mirza's appointment to the governor generalship requires the formal confirmation of Queen Elizabeth, but Strongman Mirza is in no doubt about what his authority will give him. Said he: "The Governor General must have extensive and clearly defined powers, including the power to dismiss governments." Mirza's first job was to accept the resignation of Premier...
...Populars were a mass party of planners and share-the-wealthers, founded a generation before by the Gracchi. The Optimates were a conservative elite of class-conscious constitutionalists. Marius was a leader of the Populars, and in 88 B.C. the Optimates, under the generalship of Sulla, ran him out of town and nailed the heads of his leading followers up in the Forum. Later Sulla was to spare young Julius, but warned, "One day this man may destroy the cause that you and I uphold. For this Caesar is worth six of Marius." Caesar went off to soldier in Asia...