Word: popular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chou En-lai eight months before). After a day in Burma, he traded his big Constellation for a lighter C-47, so he could land in the Indo-China kingdom of Laos. Cambodia came next day; there he listened attentively to complaints against French interference by young, popular King Norodom Sihanouk.* In the afternoon, back in his Constellation, Dulles took off for the intrigue-ridden South Viet Nam capital of Saigon to promise U.S. support to doughty little Premier Ngo Dinh Diem. From Saigon he flew to Manila for a round of diplomatic calls and a two-hour...
...fall to be elected Treasurer of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts by nearly 200,000 votes. He did not have much education (seventh grade plus some night courses) or experience (he had graduated from the WPA to stockroom clerk), but his name on the ballot looked just like that of popular and able U.S. Senator John F. (for Fitzgerald) Kennedy...
...Rival. Only a month ago, Norodom called a public referendum and got an overwhelming endorsement of his rule. His ministers, however, are considerably less popular. The King's domestic opposition, the left-wing Democratic Party of Jungle Exile Son Ngoc Thanh (TIME, Feb. 21). complained to the neutral Truce Commission recently that King Norodom was about to violate the Geneva agreements. King Norodom had a project afoot to disfranchise Viet Minh Communists in next April's general elections, despite Geneva's insistence that everyone gets a vote. The commission's Indians, Canadians, and Polish Communists backed...
...remain at your disposal if you ask me to help you," said Norodom, preparing to start a new popular movement among his people. Presumably, this meant that he would pit his own popularity, rather than that of his ministers, against Son Ngoc Thanh. Norodom's course, as usual, was a little uncertain, but certain to be hectic...
...continue practices which contribute directly to pre-Med overspecialization. A number of schools, for instance, issue lists of "highly recommended" courses beyond the minimum pre-medical science requirements. The result is often an unbalanced study program--many a pre-medical student regretfully decides that he must pass up a popular course in literature or another area of the humanities in favor of another course in physical chemistry. Fortunately, the Harvard Medical School is not guilty of such equivocation in stating its admission requirements. But Johns Hopkins, for example, states that the "student is advised but not required" to take "courses...