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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tense days that preceded his final triumph, there were many who cried dictatorship. That fear, belied by De Gaulle's previous record, was belied again by the manner in which he came to power this week and by the way he proposed to use the power...
...school into Fontana Square, scarcely 50 yards from the U.S. embassy, greyclad Republican Guards on horseback charged with flashing sabers. Shots rang out; stones were flung; 50 people were injured. In Delgado's lusty campaigning last week. Portugal saw more mob violence and bloodshed than in all the previous 25 years of the paternal dictatorship of scholarly Premier Antonio de Oliveira Salazar...
...sighted in on one of Relief Pitcher Ryne Duren's fast balls and belted it into the stands for a home run. It was not enough to win the game (Yanks 5, Tigers 4), but it was Zernial's eighth pinch-hit homer, one more than the previous league mark he had shared with Boston's Ted Williams...
...increase of 1,460,126 in 1957. Priests total 50,813, up 1,088 over the number reported last year, and the hierarchy numbers 225: four cardinals, 31 archbishops, 190 bishops. Converts to Catholicism topped the 100,000 mark for the twelfth year in succession, with 140,414 (the previous year's figure...
Born. To Ronald Reagan, 47, cinemactor turned TV host (General Electric Theater), and Nancy Davis Reagan, 33: their first son, second child (he also has two children by his previous marriage to Actress Jane Wyman); in Los Angeles. Name: Ronald Prescott...