Word: pops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...preferred nationwide elections to Rhee's proposed elections for North Korea only. It scarcely mattered. At a Saturday meeting of seven nations called in an attempt to break the deadlock, Molotov vetoed any idea of U.N.-supervised elections anywhere, insisted that in any electoral commission the North Koreans (pop. 5,000,000) get equal representation with South Korea (pop. 20 million)2 points on which the West is determined not to yield...
Anticolonial nationalists won a sweeping victory last week in the first general elections ever held in backward little British Honduras (est. pop. 75,000). The People's United Party carried eight of the nine contested seats, enough to give them a majority in the Legislative Council set up under the colony's new constitution. Said Governor Patrick Renison: "We must give it a go. I will cooperate fully...
...local reporting under "deadline pressure," the Vicksburg (Miss.) Sunday Post-Herald (circ. 8,800). It won for its coverage of a tornado that struck Vicksburg (pop. 27,948) last December, killed 39, left 1,200 homeless and destroyed communications. Despite the destruction, City Editor Charles Faulk, 39, with a staff of only five reporters, quickly got out an edition of the paper with up-to-the-minute news and pictures of the entire disaster...
...wide. Perhaps it was only natural that the search ended up right where it began. Last week, when the university announced that it had chosen as its new chancellor Clifford C. Furnas, director of the Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory in Buffalo, it was unintentionally helping to prove a point: Buffalo (pop. 580,132) is a city where town and gown...
Water Boy. Harry Morrison was born in central Illinois near Kenney (pop. 409). When he was four, and still wearing dresses, his mother died. After that, Morrison remembers his early life "as one of those things where the children get passed around among the various relatives...