Word: overthrown
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...students' self-confidence has been strengthened by political events since the war. In that period, two dictators have been overthrown, Gomez in 1945 and Perez Jimenez in 1958, both by revolutionary movements that began at the university...
From then on the article tells how the Taft Republicans in Louisiana resorted to elaborate chicanery and blatant bossism to prevent a supposedly pro-Eisenhower rank and file from exercising their democratic rights. It also tells how, once the villainous Old Guard was overthrown in the national convention. Louisiana Republicanism prospered under its new, Modern Republican leader, John Minor Wisdom. Stone writes well, and his story may be true, but his tendencies towards overstatement undermine his credibility somewhat...
Occupational Hazard. Cairo Radio still beams shrill demands that "the criminal King of Jordan" be overthrown, and Hussein never leaves his palace without a loaded pistol in his shoulder holster. But plucky little Hussein - scornfully referred to by Cairo as "transistor-size" because of his 5-ft. 6-in. height - has a king-size knack for survival. This year alone, he escaped three murder attempts, all laid to Nasser. "Assassination." says Premier Wasfi Tal dryly, "is an occupational hazard for the King and his Cabinet...
...oxygen for more than 100 days. "It was held previously," says Director Boris Yegorov of Moscow's Institute of Neurosurgery, "that oxygen deficiency of the brain cells inevitably led to their destruction. The Landau case compels us to reconsider the whole of accumulated medical experience. It has overthrown all existing theories." Neurologists outside Russia would not go as far as that. What the Landau case did, they conceded, was to undermine such arguments as the one propounded in last week's London medical journal Lancet, that doctors should not seek to prolong the lives of braindamaged patients...
...Gaulle's administration is Banker-Professor Georges Jean Raymond Pompidou, 51, a bushy-browed bear of a man who grows roses and has written books on French writers from Racine to Cabinet Colleague André Malraux. Premier in the Cabinet that was overthrown in October, and now Premier-designate, Pompidou is probably closer to the President than any other minister. He was a schoolteacher and Resistance fighter before joining De Gaulle as a consultant on education in 1944, later became director of the Rothschild bank. De Gaulle, who does not relax easily, is soothed by Pompidou's roguish...