Word: outs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Actually Burma's pols have been electioneering ever since last May, when moonfaced ex-premier U Nu lashed out at army rule (TIME, June 1). U Nu mixes religious meditation and campaign oratory as no one else does: fortnight ago, emerging from 45 days of fasting and contemplation, he...
Last March a mutiny broke out. Two Sudanese brigadier generals marched on Khartoum with two battalions and kidnaped Abboud's No. 2 man, the Minister of the Interior. But Abboud, after hearing out the brigadiers' complaints, fired his Interior Minister and promoted the two officers to seats on...
Rising last week to fight the measure, Conservative Leader Jarl Hjalmarson demanded on behalf of the largest opposition party that the government instead reduce spending, increase individual contributions to old-age pensions and health insurance. United for once, the Conservative, Center, Liberal and Communist opposition in Parliament tossed out the...
In Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia one day last week, the great crimson gates of the jail swung open, and out straggled the strangest parade the city (pop. 220,000) had ever seen. There were cowboys and clowns, Indians and Davy Crocketts and riverboat dandies. Finally, from across the guards' sports...
The old convict dressed as Father Christmas gave out the presents under a 20-ft. tree. Other convicts served iced cakes, candies and jellies that a former bricklayer had made in the prison kitchen the day before. Guards, unarmed, strolled about in costumes too, but had nothing to worry about...