Word: leader
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...versa, but Democrats flailing at Democrats. With time running out on the first session of the 86th Congress, Democrats exploded with pent-up frustration at their inability to make a partisan record and get hold of an issue. Their No. 1 target: their own shrewd, well-tailored Senate majority leader, Lyndon Baines Johnson...
Restless Diabetic. Like most young nations, India converted its independence movement into a single governing party, though its first great leader, Mohandas Gandhi, had hoped that the Congress Party would wither away. Instead, it stayed intact, and, with Nehru as its great drawing card, lapsed into corruption, inefficiency and apathy. Now for the first time there is a real opposition stirring, led by one of India's grand old men and only Governor General, Chakravarti Rajagopalachari (familiarly known as "C.R."), who is a frisky 80. Pointing out that Nehru's formal opposition comes only from the feeble Socialists...
Lateef at Cranbrook (Yusef Lateef, tenor sax; Frank Morelli, baritone sax; Terry Pollard, piano; William Austin, bass; Frank Gant, drums; Argo). A quintet given to spicing the group sound with finger cymbals, a one-stringed rebab, and a scraped ram's horn turns its talents to exploring Leader-Composer Lateef's oriental-flavored jazz fancies. Morning and Let Every Soul Say Amen may be too exotic for some tastes, but the easy-swinging sax flights of Gillespie's Woody'n You ought to set any pulse to bouncing...
...commander, U.S.A.F missile-testing base, Cape Canaveral, Fla LL.D. Citation: "A very model of a modern major general, highly trained in science as well as warfare. A crack meteorologist, his predictions set the date for D-day in World War II ... He has proved himself a brilliant administrator and leader...
...Memoirs, by Charles de Gaulle. France's monolithic leader accords himself the honor that is clearly his due in the second volume (1942-44) of his war memoirs...