Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sounded like the old Quadros; so sure was he of victory that he introduced himself at rallies as "your governor." But the erratic, wild-haired Quadros, who says that "occult forces" drove him from the presidency, did not wow the voters as he had before. Favoring a predictable politician over the unpredictable one, they gave the lead to a somewhat shopworn old figure named Adhemar de Barros, whose scandal-tainted state administration was turned out by Quadros eight years ago. A Quadros aide passed word that the ex-President was again considering a long sea voyage...
...Another politician who remembers Vimy: Prime Minister Harold jNIacmillan, whose Guards regiment was all but wiped out at nearby Loos...
...coalition government by withdrawing his support if Adenauer went back on his pledge to quit. Nor were CDU party members any happier. At CDU meetings all over the country, members demanded that Erhard, brilliant architect of Germany's prosperity, be clearly designated Adenauer's successor. When one politician introduced Erhard and spoke of his "future leadership" at a rally in Berlin's Sportpalast last week, a crowd of 7,000 cheered wildly...
...long or particularly happy life. This week the Prime Minister will again need the votes of the Social Crediters to defeat a Liberal challenge of his handling of the austerity program-which Social Credit leaders have vigorously damned. But whatever troubles lay ahead, John Diefenbaker. a shrewd and canny politician, had shown in the first crucial week that he had the combination to survive where it counted-in the final vote...
...Politics. Some of De Gaulle's keener barbs have been aimed at the politicians who resisted his return to power in 1958. "Since a politician never believes what he says," he once mused, "he is absolutely nonplussed when he is taken at his word." At a Gaullist rally in 1956, an orator demanded death for the leaders of the Fourth Republic, repeating for De Gaulle's benefit: "Mon general, we must kill all those asses." Nodded De Gaulle: "A vast program.'' After his election, when the President decided to fire some balky Cabinet ministers, Premier Michel...