Word: leader
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other side of the continent, Senate Minority Leader William Knowland is expected to lose to Democrat Pat Brown. Should Rockefeller win in New York while his party is losing in California, he will loom as a strong contender for the Presidential nomination...
Texas' Lyndon Johnson, Senate majority leader, to a Democratic dinner in Nashville, Tenn.: "I will admit that it is sometimes difficult to discover exactly what [Administration] foreign policy is. When the President says one thing, the Vice President says another and the Secretary of State takes a third course, there is little we can do but wait for Jim Hagerty to correct the record...
Arizona: In the campaign most like a personal grudge fight, Democratic Governor Ernest McFarland, 64, runs a fifty-fifty chance of getting revenge upon dashing, right-wing Republican Barry Goldwater, 49 (TIME, Sept. 29), who upset Senator McFarland in 1952 and thus ended his career as Senate majority leader...
...Greeks were even hinting at dropping out of NATO. Yet Athens popped up with a surprise concession. Bearded Archbishop Makarios, temporal and spiritual leader of the Greek Cypriots, dropped his old demand for enosis (union of Cyprus with Greece). He would be willing, he said, to settle for independence for the island after a period of internal self-government...
...Lung. Even after General De Gaulle assured Germany's Chancellor Adenauer last month that he would lead France into the common market, as promised, the British remain half-convinced that De Gaulle is too visionary a leader to confine France in a Little Europe. They argue that the general is a deliberate man doing one thing at a time, first putting through his constitution, then holding elections, later laying down the lines of an Algerian settlement-and that he has yet to turn his magistral eye to economic problems...