Word: leadership
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your Jan. 26 article on Fidel Castro fails to point out that he has been able to give Cuba its first honest government in its history ; you failed to foresee in previous stories how the ragged troops under the leadership of an "egotistic, impulsive, immature and disorganized" Castro could thoroughly beat the hell out of Batista...
Passed (381-20) by the House of Representatives and sent to the Senate last week: a four-year extension of the military draft, strongly backed by the Eisenhower Administration and the House Democratic and Republican leadership. A serious attempt to limit the extension to two years was made by Iowa's freshman Democrat Leonard Wolf, 33, backed by a large group of young Congressmen, including many first-termers. A voice vote was taken on Wolf's two-year amendment and declared lost. But it was more than close enough to call for a standing vote-which Democrat Wolf...
...complete was Nikita Khrushchev's ascendancy last week that he could proclaim that during those 1957 days of "collective leadership," when "the cult of the individual" was out of favor, he had actually been outvoted in the inner leadership, 7 to 4 as Western specialists had suspected at the time (TIME, Sept. 16, 1957). To the routine condemnation of the "loathsome" Malenkov and his allies, Kaganovich, Molotov and Bulganin, Leningrad's party secretary demanded that former Presidium Members Mikhail Pervukhin and Maxim Saburov admit that they, too, had sided with "the anti-party group" against Khrushchev...
...unicameral legislature, an ethnic Greek president and an ethnic Turkish vice-president will compose the legislative and executive leadership. The Turkish vice-president will have a veto on matters affecting the Turkish minority or the security of Turkey itself. Such a scheme closely resembles the one John Calhoun advanced to protect Southern minority rights in the pre-civil war United States...
...Rockefeller Foundation awarded $10,000 to Stouffer to continue a study of leadership in local communities...