Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...East teams, repeated as first string halfback on the A.P. All-Ivy League team. He led the league in punting and placed fourth in the country, with an average of 41 yards per unt. In total offense, he ran for 370 yards and passed for another 378, to rank third in the league...
Wharton is the top man in a very deep 600 event. In fact, the event is so deep that Wilson is still in the process of finding exactly which men he will enter in it. So far, Bob Well and Mike Robertson rank right behind Wharton...
More Democracy. No one save Tito was more popular in Yugoslavia than Vice President Djilas (pronounced jee-las). In actual rank he stood No. 3, if not No. 2, behind the dictator. A bright, tough product of the classic Yugoslav Red school (law studies, school riots, strikes, underground, jail, partisan warfare), he fought bravely with Tito in World War II. His father, two brothers and two sisters were killed by Axis troops. Only last month he was elected President of the Parliament. He was one of the few authorized to speak out on matters of party policy and dialectic...
What was involved here was liquidation of the League of Communists, the shattering of discipline." That was it. The Central Committee voted to strip Comrade Djilas of all his party rank, and he obediently resigned the presidency of the Parliament. But contrite Milovan Djilas was not cast into the outer darkness: he remains-though probably not for long-one of Yugoslavia's four Vice Presidents. While he may participate in no party councils, he still holds his Communist Party card. That much Tito thought "Djido" deserved-presumably because of the pure quality of his repentance...
...strongest newspapers came out next morning against any attempt to reform the government along Pella's lines. "No rightist solution is possible in the present situation," said Turin's La Stampa, which is owned by Fiat. Added Milan's respected Corriere della Sera: "The rank and file of the party, supported by a large percentage of the clergy and even the episcopate, have turned left ... at the same time that the Christian Democratic Party hierarchy has stood still...