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...Honduras' Julio Lozano seized power during an election mixup in 1954, two years later claimed victory in a fraudulent election even before the ballots were counted; when his cops capped the fraud by firing into a crowd of demonstrators, he was ousted by a military junta, died in Miami last August...
...Executive Board of the Harvard Law School Forum has voted to refund the admission price to ticketholders unfairly denied admittance to Aneurin Bevan's speech of Nov. 1. The mixup occurred when unruly students without tickets rushed the gate...
LONDON, Nov. 21--Prime Minister MacMillan announced today he will go to Paris Monday to see Premier Felix Gaillard. Plainly his mission will be to smooth ruffled British-French relations. MacMillan told the House of Commons he and Gaillard will discuss the Tunisian arms mixup and next month's summit meeting of NATO powers...
...Work Is Not Limited." Last week, after a mixup in the counting showed that he had won his first vote of confidence in the Chamber of Deputies only by means of Fascist support, lifelong anti-Fascist Adone Zoli unhappily resigned (TIME, June 17). No sooner had Zoli departed than Gronchi, who also has firm ideas on domestic policy-he has long argued for admission of the Red-tinged Nenni Socialists into the government-issued a pronouncement. It jolted many of his fellow Christian Democrats to the core. Said the President: "My work is not limited to giving the country...
...blue but no makeup, Carolina-tanned Billy Graham was bringing down the third-act curtain on the first live U.S. telecast of his New York Crusade. But as Billy continued his "invitation" ("just get up quickly and come right on down"), he was drowned out in a cue mixup by a "special announcer" plugging a Graham book and unctuously imploring viewers to "let us know if Dr. Graham has been a blessing to you." That night Billy went back to his hotel depressed and discouraged. Besides the technical mixup, he had been "nervous and bothered by the camera rolling around...