Word: primed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...longer read the papers. Last week, as he has so often in the past, Eamon de Valera, 76, imposed his own view of things upon his countrymen. Obedient to his wishes, De Valera's Fianna Fail (Men of Destiny) Party cleared the way for his resignation as Prime Minister of Ireland by nominating him for the largely honorific job of President...
...fight, and we'll crown De Valera king of Ireland." But Dev himself made Ireland a republic. But for 21 of the last 27 years the inflexible ex-rebel, whose dour personality probably owes more to his Spanish father than his Irish mother, has been Ireland's Prime Minister or Taoiseach (pronounced tea-shock). A man of homely analogies, naive honesty and unbudgeable stubbornness, New York-born De Valera dominated Irish politics...
...seeing him safely removed from active politics. The independent Irish Times, which has often bitterly attacked Dev and his "break all links with Britain" policy, said that Dev was "the fitting choice" for President, and there were few in Ireland to disagree. His possible successor as Taoiseach: Deputy Prime Minister Sean Lemass, able Minister for Industry and Commerce. A golf-playing, hard-driving executive of French ancestry, Lemass was the youngest man in the garrison, a mere spalpeen, at the Dublin General Post Office during the 1916 Rising. The story goes that a British officer, after the surrender, kicked...
...India Prime Minister Nehru's handsome 41-year-old daughter, Indira Gandhi, emerged as the leading candidate for the presidency of the Congress Party, a post held previously by both her father and her grandfather. A veteran politician and a sloe-eyed, animated woman, Indira is married to M.P. Feroze Gandhi (no kin to the Mahatma), has two young sons, is a determined left-winger and a close confidante of her father, as well as his official hostess. The only foreseeable bar to her election next month would be Nehru's disapproval, and, in accepting the nomination, Indira...
Urrutia's Cabinet seemed respectable, well meaning, weak on government experience. Prime Minister José Miró Cardona, 56, is dean of the Havana Bar Association. Commerce Minister Raúl Cepero Bonilla, 37. set his goal as "an efficient organization, but above all an honest one." Public Works Minister Manuel Ray Rivero. 34, an engineer, was the dapper boss of the Havana rebel underground. He has the most urgent job of all: repairing the shattered roads and bridges to move the $700 million sugar harvest, which starts this month...