Word: leader
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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However, all other democratic hopefuls named in the poll, including Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson, Senator Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota and Senator Stuart Symington of Missouri, were considered easy prey for either Rockefeller or Nixon...
Fateful Choices. No other French leader had ever dared to offer the 9,000,000 Algerians what Charles de Gaulle was holding forth to them: a free choice to decide their own future political status, even to secede peacefully from France if that was what they wanted. Algerians, said De Gaulle, could opt for 1) independence, 2) complete political and economic integration with France, or 3) home rule under France's wing...
...major parties were flexing their muscles for the march to the polls on Oct. 8. With the immemorial piety of the ins, Tory Party Chairman Lord Hailsham earnestly proclaimed: "I repudiate mudslinging and hope that neither party will indulge in it." Dutifully echoing this sentiment, Labor Party Leader Hugh Gaitskell nonetheless could not resist the opportunity for a gibe at Hailshau:. "Any repentant sinner," said Gaitskell, "is always welcome...
...Iraq's notorious People's Court. First came 3½ minutes of whooping and hollering.by the Red-paid claque that dominated the crowd in the courtroom. Then Communist-lining Colonel Fadhil Abbas Mahdawi, the court's presiding judge, wandered through 20 minutes of invective against the leaders of Nasser's U.A.R. ("gangsters and robbers") and praise for Iraq's President Abdul Karim Kassem ("leader of the whole Arab nation"). At last, airily dismissing a defense counsel's request to be allowed to make a final plea to the court, Mahdawi got down to business...
...racially embattled Little Rock, a prime point of interest last week was a religious conversion. Not long ago, Clothing Dealer Jimmy Karam was a pal of Governor Faubus, a segregationist leader of the 1957 riots at Central High School; during last fall's elections, he faked an inflammatory picture of a Negro family agitating for "equality" (TIME, Oct. 6). But now invective ("lying bastards, gutless s.o.b.s.") is gone from his lips. He holds court in his Main Street store, telling all comers that "only Jesus is important. If everybody could take Jesus to their hearts, there would...