Word: opener
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tactical error, when he waited until the nominating convention itself to go all out for New York's Averell Harriman, was too late to get more than two dozen votes (out of 1,372) off the Stevenson bandwagon. For his part, Rayburn was prepared to work in the open long before convention time. But his critical role will come if, as expected, he mounts the podium at Los Angeles in July 1960 to become, for the fourth time running, permanent convention chairman. Master of floor strategy and impervious to shouts of delegates he does not care to recognize...
...fortnight mild-spoken General Kassem replied with characteristic obliqueness: "I do not encourage parties and party life at present." The Reds continued to praise Kassem as "our savior leader," kept up their insistent demands for office. But last week the left-wing National Democrats, the only political party with open representation in the Cabinet, and a party that has often worked in the past with the Communists, decided "in response to the opinion of the Prime Minister" to suspend political activity...
That left the Communists as the only major group operating as a political party in Iraq. Embarrassed and unready for any open test, the Communists tried to say that the National Democrats had misinterpreted Kassem's wishes. Thereupon, Kassem called a press conference to say that he still opposed "political party activities during the transitional period." And though he said it with a smile, his meaning was plain: "Any group that works against this I would consider as having committed an act of conspiracy against the government." The Communists reluctantly called off their campaign...
Concentration on breaking latifundista political power often obscures the fact that a country may have excellent virgin farmlands available. Ecuador spent its public funds not for expropriating land but for building 1,600 miles of roads to open up the hot coastal plains. A thousand persons still own 80% of the cool Andean valleys, but peasants on free, 124-acre coastal plots are enjoying a boom that raised agricultural income 43% in seven years...
Crisis. But last week, with early birds already pulling their cars into the queue outside the track gates for choice vantage points when the gates open at 5 a.m. on Memorial Day, the Belond ran into trouble. In a practice run, the car seized up on Driver Jimmy Bryan. Mechanics tore it apart, worked 18 hours straight on its battered engine, badly damaged when the oil pump failed. They got it back in action, and Bryan proved the car was as good as new by qualifying at an average speed of 142.118 m.p.h...