Word: primed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Prime Minister has never been a man to sit long behind a desk. For three whirlwind weeks before the elections (which would last for almost three weeks) he swept across the nation, traveling by jeep, river steamer, sky-blue Cadillac, and his own Russian Ilyushin plane Messenger of the Clouds (the gift of Bulganin and Khrushchev) to address crowds that sometimes numbered...
Only two months have passed since enfeebled, 73-year-old Ichiro Hatoyama stepped down from the premiership of Japan and gave way to a presumably healthier 72-year-old Tanzan Ishibashi, who boasted, "I can eat and drink anything." But for exactly one-half of the time Prime Minister Ishibashi has been in office, he has been laid up with bronchial pneumonia. Last week, after elbowing their way through a crowd of spectators jamming the garden and the street outside, four doctors politely took off their shoes and entered the sick Premier's Tokyo home to make an official...
...down by his associates, but the Liberal-Democrats were ready and waiting with a successor whose rise to premiership would be no surprise. Second-runner by only seven votes to Ishibashi when he became Premier, 60-year-old Foreign Minister Nobusuke Kishi has had the official title Acting Temporary Prime Minister throughout Ishibashi's illness. A business tycoon (steel, chemicals), he has been a shrewd backstage manipulator in Japanese politics since long before Pearl Harbor. In the early days of Japan's burgeoning Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, he was one of occupied Manchuria...
...soon a figure of history, Britain's resigned Prime Minister, ailing Sir Anthony Eden, 59, arrived for a month's rest in New Zealand after a 35-day voyage from England by way of the Pacific. Wan and drawn, Sir Anthony perked up on sighting his chosen garden of Eden, crisply observed: "Now I have no plans. I am just at the mercy of your wise government and your...
...Kansas' lanky (7-ft.-2-in.) Wilt ("The Stilt") Chamberlain is the most publicized college-basketball player in a generation. Before he graduated from a Philadelphia high school, the pros were squabbling over him; more than 140 colleges were bidding for his services. Still far from his prime, Wilt is just too big for most opponents. Ever since The Stilt arrived in Kansas, the university field house has been sold out for almost every game. Chancellor Franklin Murphy goes into weekend seclusion to avoid rabid fans "prepared to trade their honor for two seats." Even if Wilt Chamberlain never...