Word: popular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ghana Times "humbly" suggested that the new baby be named either Amma Ghana or Kwame Ghana. In London, palace officials were busy looking up the proper procedure for setting up a Council of State to take on the Queen's duties later on. In the midst of popular enthusiasm, more sobersided politicians took note of another side effect of the news. With the Queen's presence in England next fall now assured (her acquiescence is necessary to the dissolution of Parliament), Prime Minister Harold Macmillan would have an extra month before having to call a general election, which...
...there is such a difference in psychology"), and developed so strong a left-wing slant that when he joined the Free French in 1940, a right-wing Gaullist received him with the sour greeting: "Bonjour, Commissar." Like most other French leftists, Soustelle supported Socialist Leon Blum's prewar Popular Front with the Communists. In Mexico one of his great friends was Communist Painter Diego Rivera, who was at that time, Soustelle recalls, "in an anti-Stalinist phase and carried a large pistol...
Last week Kassem announced that a court would try the "anarchists" responsible for the Kirkuk "massacre" of at least 120 persons. Sixty members of the Communist-infiltrated Popular Resistance Force were haled before a court-martial on charges of murdering three Baghdad notables-the first proCommunists to stand trial in Iraq since the revolution of July...
Moscow Coup. But the man who held the brightest spotlight was nowhere near Rio last week. He was 7,000 miles away in the person of Janio Quadros, 42, the homespun, popular ex-governor of Sao Paulo state and front-running candidate of the conservative National Democratic Union (U.D.N.). Topping off a round-the-world junket, Quadros followed Richard Nixon into Moscow, got himself a full 45 minutes with the jovial Nikita Khrushchev, came out to urge "the most rapid possible" resumption of diplomatic relations with Russia. Cockily, Janio added: "The Soviet Union gets its coffee from Africa and, judging...
...sized captain in the king's guards, one Count de Lauzun, who was half a dozen years and a foot or so her junior. She wooed him ardently. For three happy days, Louis XIV gave his grudging consent to the match, then withdrew it when a storm of popular protest blew up. The Sun King broke Mademoiselle's heart with the wondrously uncharacteristic words: "Kings must please the public...