Word: juntas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With Rojas aboard a Colombian DC-4 bound for exile in Spain, the junta got to work. Calling in Opposition Leaders Valencia and Lleras Camargo, they began organizing a civilian Cabinet to help govern the country until next year's elections. At week's end, with the list drawn up, Bogotá was almost back to normal. Only one Colombian seemed to have completely missed the significance of the uprising. In Bermuda, where he stopped over with his wife and family, Rojas was asked what caused his downfall. "There was no revolution," he said. "I decided to turn...
Rain came to Hartford, Connecticut this weekend to slow action in the New England Intercollegiate Tennis Championships down to a walk, leaving the singles championship in the semi-final stages. Harvard's top-seeded team of Dale Junta and Larry Sears swept to victory in the doubles, however, to give the Crimson a good chance of retaining its team title...
...varsity players, Junta, Sears, Steve Gottlieb and Phil Mills did surprisingly well in the doubles division, as the pickup team of Gottlieb and Mills reached the semi-final round before being eliminated by Dave and Don Hicks of Amherst, 7-5, 6-2. The Hicks brothers were seeded second; Gottlieb and Mills were unseeded...
...other semi-final round, Junta and Sears disposed of Jon Clark and Tom Freiburg of Yale, 6-4, 6-1. The final round match between Hicks-Hicks and Junta-Sears was unusual in that the Trinity College groundskeepers were able, in a half-hour, to set up an indoor court which met with the approval of both doubles teams...
With the courts set up, Junta and Sears survived a shaky middle two sets to defeat Hicks and Hicks, 6-2, 3-6, 8-6, 6-4. Junta had won the title last year, teamed with Brooks Harris...