Word: predecessors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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COLOMBIA Censorship as Usual One of President Gustavo Rojas Pinilla's proudest acts, soon after he came to power two years ago, was to relax the strict press controls administered by his unpopular predecessor, dictatorial President Laureano Gomez. On one occasion, in the presence of a band of visiting foreign newsmen, Rojas Pinilla turned to the government's chief censor with a grin and forthwith abolished all censorship of outgoing news cables. But last week, no longer so proud, no longer so sure of himself, President Rojas cracked down on the press again...
...country had an earthquake, and Turkey went to war with Greece. As the college was just recovering, the Young Turks revolted. Then came the Balkan Wars, World War I, the Kemal Ataturk revolution of the '20s, and the Great Depression. By 1944, when Ballantine's able predecessor, Floyd Black, took over, the college was $500,000 in debt. Only by the most stringent economies-"prowling about the halls," recalls one professor, "turning off lights, or more likely, unscrewing the bulbs so nobody else could turn them on"-was Black able to get Robert nearly...
...world around him. His tapestries could not be called brilliant, but they record the life of the day with considerable verve. Ordered to make engravings after the Velásquez portraits that hung in the palace galleries, he did a barely creditable job, but the genius of his predecessor was impressed upon...
After 13 days of interregnum, Italy had a new Premier. Christian Democrat Antonio Segni, 64, a lean-featured, soft-voiced professor who looks like a country gentleman of 50 years ago, took over last week where his predecessor Mario Scelba left off, and managed to put together again Italy's four-party, middle-of-the-road coalition...
After years of tension and months of negotiations with Tunisia's determined Nationalists, the French government of Premier Edgar Faure last week made good the promise given to one of its restless protectorates a year ago by his predecessor, Pierre Mendès-France. At the end of three days' debating-joined in for the first time since he left office by Assemblyman Mendès-France himself-France's National Assembly overwhelmingly approved the government proposal to grant Tunisia internal self-government in gradual stages over the next 20 years. Even the Communists did an unexpected...