Word: junta
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grey at 59, he bitterly turned the knife on old colleagues. "If there is honesty," he declared, "you must bring here without exception all those persons who collaborated with my government." Such a roster, as everyone knew, would include several Senators, and the five members of an army junta that replaced Rojas and now live in honored retirement. His wealth? Ah, said Rojas, there were a few "presents," received in the spirit given, "whether it was a herd of cows from ranchers of the Ilanos, or a little duck from an unhappy old woman...
...boot, last week smoothly propelled its leader into Venezuela's presidency. The party is the left-leaning Acción Democrática (A.D.). Its leader: scholarly, owlish Rómulo Betancourt, 50. In his dust, Betancourt left Rear Admiral Wolfgang Larrazábal, head of the revolutionary junta that ousted Dictator Marcos Pérez Jiménez last January, and Rafael Caldera, candidate of the Social Christian COPEI party...
...morning last week Venezuela's Communist Party boss. Gustavo Machado, walked into the Caracas house of Rear Admiral Wolfgang Larrazabal, leading presidential candidate and (until he started campaigning) head of the ruling junta. Half an hour later, smiling from ear to ear. Machado came out with a document. On it was Larrazábal's signature, officially accepting the support of the Communist Party in the Dec. 7 election...
Most of the team members attempted to qualify for the championships at Wimbeldon, but only one, Scott, made the first round, where he was promptly defeated. The doubles team of Junta and Freiberg advanced to the second round before being eliminated...
...only victories for the Britishers were registered by the doubles team of Hull and Michael Hand, winning all three of its matches; by Arvin Charanjiva, who downed Sears the first day and Scott the second, and by Hand, who defeated Freiberg, and then lost to Junta, the Harvard-Yale captain. The next Cup defense will be attempted in two years in the United States...