Word: revolts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Richard Nixon, who has a devoted following of "Young Turks." Though Governor Knight has moved cautiously in replacing Warrenites with his own men, the coalition has become California's dominant political force. Warrenites are still in technical control of the party machinery at the state level, but a revolt of Nixon-Knight county chairmen has been gathering steam. These men are determined either to take over the state committee, or to cripple it by cutting off the money they raise for it. To such moves, some Warrenites respond by joining the Nixon-Knight coalition; others, like National Committeewoman Marjorie...
...serious as any since the Reformation. But the Reformation was a revolt only against the Church; the present crisis is, essentially, a revolt against God. It has many aspects. Its climax is Marxism; its accompanying symptoms include many ills of modern society-lack of moral certainty, an overdose of materialism, worship of the state, negation of all things spiritual. Therefore it is a threat not only to the Catholic Church, but to all Christian ideals. Despite the gulf that divides them, both Protestants and Catholics have found that they can be allies in defense of common values against the common...
Died. Francis Picabia, 75, wealthy, erratic French-born Cuban painter; of arteriosclerosis; in Paris. A bored, respectable success at 35, Picabia joined the madcap Dadaist revolt against tradition during the 20s, in 1950 enraged Paris critics with a deadpan display of canvases, each enlivened only by a colored dot placed just off center...
...suburban home. Forewarned, Paz Estenssoro had long since slipped off to the presidential palace. The rebels went on to seize a police station. "We heard lots of shooting," said Capehart. By 9 o'clock, armed members of the pro-government unions had put down the minor revolt in the capital; then word came that the main uprising was at Cochabamba, 140 miles away. Battle Reports. Neither Capehart nor Paz Estenssoro scares easily, and they had business to attend to. Punctually at 10 a.m., Capehart arrived to keep his appointment with the President at the palace. Early reports received there...
Asylum in B.V.D.'s. The revolt, the sixth attempt since Paz Estenssoro himself took power in the revolution of April 1952, was over, except for the usual scramble to safety by the defeated. Fifteen succeeded in getting to airfields, where they commandeered three planes and flew off to Peru and Chile. The revolt's leader. Oscar Unzaga de la Vega, dramatically appeared two days later clawing his way up a river bank behind the Uruguayan embassy for a successful dash to asylum inside. Another leader, in a hospital with wounds, dodged his guards one night, leaped from...