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...national election of 1952, the U.R.D. inflicted a humiliating defeat on President Marcos Pérez Jiménez' government party. The strong man-pausing only to recount the vote's in his own favor -angrily exiled Ignacio and three of Pedro Arcaya's children for good measure. Aristocratic Don Pedro and his wife were not bothered, but the ouster of her children so outraged Senora Arcaya that she took to spending hours on the telephone denouncing the dictator to her society friends. One Christmas the elder Arcayas found their phone, ripped out and tied with...
...abandoned hopes of attaining a majority in the council, however. The civic group was busy circulating a petition yesterday calling for a recount of the 36,000 ballots cast in the local council election. The organization says a recount is necessary because CCA-backed Marcus Morton was edged for ninth place on the council by Charles A. Watson, with a margin of less than 100 votes...
...goods, he produced Stop the Music, the most lavish of the giveaway shows (refrigerators, washing machines, etc.). In between, he headed up the New York office of the wartime OWL As a personality, Cowan is a paradox: a soft-spoken huckster with a Ph.B., who is more apt to recount his failures than his successes...
...what degree of approval to render a policy, how to rebuke a Premier with an insultingly small majority, how to bring him down without taking the blame. If the leader needs more time to assess the situation, he simply drops in duplicate ballots for several Deputies, which forces a recount. Before every important vote, the Assembly adjourns so that each party can decide on the "dosage," at which the Radicals are the admitted masters...
Capricornus. Premier Mendes-France will demand a recount, but with the block of editorial researchers holding solid, Dulles will retain Times' title, Man of the Year. The Department of Defense will release details of a new manpower plan which abolishes Armed Forces and conscripts all young men to 27 months with General Motors. General Ridgway and the Joint Chiefs of Staff will resign in protest. Henry Ford II, will not be happy about it either...