Word: hand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Voters will cast two ballots, one for political parties (not individual candidates), the other for functional groups. In actual practice, Sukarno will have the authority to hand-pick half the members of parliament. The chief losers under the new system will be the Moslem Masjumi Party, many of whose leaders backed the "rebellion of the colonels" that still flickers in the outer islands, and the Communists. For the Reds the new Konsepsi is also a bitter blow, since under the old system they had been confident of winning the next elections and coming to power legally. But Red Boss...
...metal tags. Devoid of political experience, President Manuel Urrutia, onetime judge, kept the Cabinet in all-night sessions, quibbling over petty details. "He might make a President in normal times," said one of his own assistants, "but these are not normal times." The treasury was still running on a hand-to-mouth basis, collecting $2,500,000 a day in taxes, much of it in advance. One unexpected windfall: $3,270,170 in bonds and cash, left behind in a strongbox by Batista...
...after eight months of psychiatric care at Kansas' famed Menninger Clinic (TIME, Sept. 29). Last week 20th Century-Fox sadly announced that Actress Tierney would not be able to report next month for work on what was to be her first picture since 1955's The Left Hand of God. Of her own volition, she had re-entered the clinic for further treatment...
...candidates among once-hopeless students. It is a long, uphill fight. Of 148 students in the experiment's first class at Junior High School 43, only 38 were able to pass all their courses after they went on to George Washington in 1957. Without the experiment's hand-tailored education, perhaps five could have expected to pass...
...Pierre Levegh's Mercedes into the crowd, Grand Prix racing had not seemed quite the same. Last year came the fiery deaths of his Ferrari teammates, Italy's Luigi Musso and Britain's Peter Collins. At Musso's funeral, Mike grabbed Juan Fangio's hand and muttered: "We have to quit this." (Said Fangio: "That conversation finally decided me to retire...