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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...truce plan is largely the work of Alberto Lleras Camargo, the Liberal President of Colombia who was in office in 1945 during the election from which most of Colombia's recent political misery grew. A split among the Liberals let the minority-choice Conservative candidate win. Four years later, panicky Conservative leaders closed Congress, put Colombia under a state of siege, imposed their most forceful caudillo, Laureano Gómez, as President. Bitter interparty rural fighting, in which 20,000 died, finally led to a military dictatorship under General Gustavo Rojas Pinilla. Modest, brainy Alberto Lleras, meanwhile, moved...
...youngest of five children born to a traveling salesman, Inge grew up in Independence, Kans. grimly determined to become an actor, saw his dream dissolve in one frantic moment of stage fright three years after he graduated from the University of Kansas (class of 1935). "I played the choir master in an amateur production of Our Town," recalls Inge, "and suddenly I found I was terrified, too self-conscious to ever act again." Later, he spent an unhappy period as a high school and college teacher ("I experienced almost the same terrors as I did as an actor...
...Revolution was different: it created a deep fission in the French mind between traditional and supposedly progressive values, and left all questions unresolved. The revolution tended to be a permanent thing-an ideal, a matter for the future rather than a historical event. Its romance became a myth which grew to include other revolutions, notably the Russian, until at times the French cult of revolution seems "indistinguishable from the Fascist cult of violence." Enemies of the church, French intellectuals have hankered for a substitute religion and found it in a kind of futurism." Revolution. Aron says, serves as a refuge...
...Church in the East German city of Leipzig. The students of Leipzig University were his special concern; he volunteered to serve as minister to the Evangelical Studentengemeinde. This organization was no more political than a campus branch of the Y.M.C.A., but after the Hungarian massacre last year, the Reds grew jumpy about any non-Communist student organization-especially one with so opiniated a pastor...
...James B. Pugh, pastor of the Church of the Light of Christ in Roxbury, began preaching about 3 p.m., on the side-walk in front of the Coop. As his audience grew and began to spill out into the street, the regular flow of automobiles and pedestrians became obstructed...