Word: junta
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sleazy equipment, Nasser went back to Cairo to conspire his way to power. Of the Free Officers' movement he says simply: "I am the original." On the night of July 22, 1952, the plotters struck. Victorious, Nasser ruled through General Mohammed Naguib for two years, then through a junta of which he was the Premier...
...Suspicious." This may have been as inevitable as his success. From the day of the revolution, he set out to be boss, and chafed at the delays in getting decisions inside the old Free Officers' junta. Of the 14 members of Nasser's first junta, four in top jobs survived when Nasser finally dissolved it and became constitutional President this summer. A friend once asked the strongman why he was so reluctant to delegate authority. "Show me ten men I can trust," he replied, "and I will delegate authority." Recently a visiting diplomat, who had been doing...
Lead by the brilliant play of ex-Harvard captain Brooks Harris who won two singles and two doubles matches, the Americans took a 3-1 lead the opening day and were never headed. Harris downed Graham Daniels of Oxford, 6-3, 7-5, and Dale Junta of Harvard swept past Tony Clayton of Cambridge...
...absence of this international piece of silverware did not seem to lesson the Americans' force as they held their two match margin over the remaining two days. Harris beat Robinson, 6-0, 4-6, 6-3, and in doubles Harris teamed with Junta to take the fifth American victory of the competition...
...tennis scene, Brooks Harris, captain of the 1956 tennis team, has been playing the New England tournament circuit in preparation for the forth-coming Harvard-Yale versus Oxford-Cambridge match. He will play along with Dale Junta of Harvard and Eric Moore and Ed Meyer of Yale in defense of the cup which the Americans won in an upset victory last year...