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...last twelve years, Uruguay has been governed by a succession of nine-man National Councils, in which four members of the majority party take annual turns as the country's nominal President. When the presidency came around to Washington Beltrán.* 51, a Blanco Party leader and onetime editor of Montevideo's daily El Pais, he went on TV with a drastic proposal: abolish the Swiss-style council and return posthaste to a single, strong President. Said Beltrán: "If the government is required to govern, it must be provided with the means...
...entire nine-man squad will enter the Eastern Championships at Columbia this weekend. Kolb, whose 13-2 Ivy record is sure to place him on the all-Ivy team for the second year running, and Dooley, will enter the National Championships with an as-yet-undetermined epee representative in Detroit March...
Last night at a banquet held at University of Pennsylvania. Harvard's team received the highest squash honor when it was named the nine-man intercollegiate champions. A 10-0 season record enabled the Crimson to win the championship for the fourth straight year...
Councillor Daniel J. Hayes, Jr. who introduced the motion which arranged the meeting, told the nine-man body: "My personal belief is that we are not doing all we can in the area of crime prevention...
Once upon a time in 1952 the 3,000,000 people of Uruguay voted to have a nine-man council instead of a President, and everyone cried hooray. Even though they didn't always agree, the council members tried hard to get along, and the land, which was already very welfare-minded, became even more so. One-fourth of all the workers got jobs with the government at which they worked only half a day; and for every 2½ people working, there was one who had retired at 45, sometimes with full pay. It was wonderful. The people...