Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...election did not quite work out according to plan. Poulson led, but his 179,273 votes were nearly 100,000 less than the combined total of his opponents and he was forced into a May 31 runoff election with former Democratic Congressman Sam Yorty, a lawyer and persistent politician who has been out of office since...
...agent. "I never had that opinion; I never thought it then with firmness enough to publish it or to say it in public, and I don't today." Of course, Robert Welch admitted, he had written a "private, confidential letter," i.e., his privately circulated book The Politician, "in which I stated some harsh personal opinions of our then President." That harsh personal opinion: "Dwight Eisenhower is a dedicated, conscious agent of the Communist conspiracy...
...government: José Miró Cardona, 58, a respected Havana lawyer, whose credentials are as good in Cuba as they are in the United States. Miró Cardona was Fidel Castro's first Prime Minister but quit in anger and disgust after 39 days. Never much of a politician, Miró Cardona leads no movement of his own and promises to serve only until elections, for which he will not be a candidate. When and if the council manages to win a piece of Cuban soil, Provisional President Miró Cardona will move in, and the council will...
head man in the Congo, who is mistrusted by virtually every Congolese politician, was back in Manhattan for consultations last week, and with him out of the way things noticeably improved. His temporary replacement, the Sudan's affable Mekki Abbas, made a point of consulting Kasavubu at every move. As a result, the first of 4,700 Indian U.N. troops arrived without incident-though Kasavubu had loudly protested the decision to send them. Said one Congolese: "Mr. Abbas has restored in days the good feeling it took Mr. Dayal months to destroy...
...neon-sign regularity and radiating a homeyness rarely found in homes. When the flow of words is finally finished, he looks straight into the listener's eyes and ends with a benison: "God bless you.'1 The man with the magic voice and manner is neither preacher, politician nor gunslinger-though he needs to be a good deal of each in his business. He is James Martin Moran. 42. the ebullient, aggressive and imaginative owner and president of Chicago's Courtesy Motor Sales Inc. To Chicagoans he is known simply as "Jim Moran. the Courtesy Man." Through...