Word: pr
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week a dozen or more stout French hearts were beating a little faster at the thought of becoming Président de la République. An almost inaudible, all but invisible campaign was going on. Between Dec. 16 and Jan. 16, the members of the Council of the Republic (Senate) and National Assembly will meet at Versailles to choose a President to succeed the incumbent, adroit Vincent Auriol...
...most hunted man in Cuba today is Aureliano Sánchez Arango, 46, onetime Minister of State and Education in the ousted government of President Carlos Prío and now underground leader of a revolutionary movement to overthrow Strongman Fulgencio Batista. So badly does Batista want to catch Sáchez Arango that Cuban police have kidnaped and beaten or tortured at least two Cubans known to be his friends to force them to divulge his hiding place. But Sánchez Arango, who learned all the conspiratorial tricks fighting the Machado dictatorship 20 years...
...fell away and he laughed. He talked tensely, his brown eyes darting, his hands in constant movement. "Since the electoral solution looks impossible," he said, "we must adopt a revolutionary solution. This will lead to a restoration of constitutional government and the full authority of the voters. For me, Prío is still the President of Cuba. When the revolution is complete, Prío will return and finish out his lawful term. Then, with the constitution restored, we shall have free elections." I asked: "With yourself as candidate?" The answer: "I do not think of politics...
Another storekeeper in a slum neighborhood differs on this last point. "I don't think much of McNamara. He's always hung around politics looking for graft. I don't like the CCA either. Let people use their own ideas. Beat PR and you beat CCA too. I think we should bring back the old kind of government. I'd like to so people in there who don't take orders from a group...
Asked what his customers think about the election, he remarked, "Half the people around here say, 'Oh nuts, election day . . . better get my beer, today, they'll be closed tomorrow.'"Dennis Sintiris, Cambridge barber for 36 years, likes PR and adds, "I gotta vote people I know. If I start vote everyone, won't do any good. Just gonna vote Santoro and Sullivan. No others." This is commonly known as bullet-voting...