Word: presidental
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Alfonso Lopez Pumarejo, 73, two-term (1934-38, 1942-45) President of Colombia, who pushed through a series of economic reforms, tried to mediate between Liberals and Conservatives in Colombia's bloody civil war but was forced into exile (1952) by Conservative mobs who burned his home; in...
Waves of Myth. As Hughes sees it. American diplomacy, especially under the late John Foster Dulles, failed in three major ways: 1) Pursuing desirable but impracticable aims. Example: advocating "liberation" of the Eastern Europe satellites. 2) Pursuing contradictory aims. Example: aiding rebel Indonesian army officers while maintaining ostensibly amicable relations...
On the eve of the annual Combined Charities Drive, President Pusey has released a letter to the student body urging support in achieving this year's record goal of $15,000. Pusey describes the campaign as "the Harvard community's chance to show that it is concerned for human welfare...
But now, as President Eisenhower prepares to set out on his gala 13-nation trip, many months after The Ugly American appeared, the United States still has an ambassador in Paris who speaks German, no French, and an ambassador in Bonn who speaks French, no German. In addition, American embassies...
A reliable source said that John Stiegman, head coach at Rutgers University, already has been selected as Sebo's successor. A recommendation to drop Sebo and hire Stiegman has been made to Dr. Gaylord P. Harnwell, Penn president.