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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...swept a generation of students who, unlike their elders, have no personal experience of Spain's harsh 1936-39 civil war (TIME, Jan. 16). More than 3,000 students signed a petition asking for free election of delegates to a student congress. Because such a student congress would rival the S.E.U., the proposal drew Falange fire; but University Rector Dr. Pedro Laín Entralgo thought it wise to allow the students to blow off steam, agreed to free elections, class by class, in the downtown law school. Last fortnight first-year law students, voting for 20 congress delegates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Revolt at Madrid University | 2/20/1956 | See Source »

...second time to prevent a Republican from speaking before another College group, has gone just one step too far. When John R. Thomson first tried this stunt in the fall with Senator Bricker, it was possible to laugh the whole thing off as just another squabble between rival political clubs. But now that he seems to have pulled the same trick again, this time with Senator Bridges, it is clear that his actions are subverting the whole structure of undergraduate organizations and deserve immediate condemnation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mr. Thomson's Tactics | 2/20/1956 | See Source »

...Last year there were repeated charges after a HYRC election of "corruption," "bribes," and "ugly threats." The HYDC was almost ruined before it began, in the 1952 campaign, when a pair of Southern Democrats tried to split the club after they had lost an election, despite buying votes. The rival Democratic Club, however, was not recognized by Dean Watson...

Author: By John A. Rava, | Title: College Political Clubs: Activity, For a Change | 2/18/1956 | See Source »

Tenley Albright '57 barely held the lead over her Olympic rival, Carol Heiss of Ozone Park, N.Y., after the completion of four school figures in the world's woman's figure skating championships at Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tenley Holds Narrow Lead | 2/18/1956 | See Source »

Last month, however, Transamerica nudged into Eccles' backyard; it bought three banks and four branches (for about $2,000,000) in Idaho from Walter E. Cosgriff, longtime Eccles rival and onetime RFC director. Last week Transamerica went onto the doorstep; it agreed to buy Salt Lake City's Walker Bank & Trust Co., Utah's oldest and second biggest bank, for $200 a share, will probably end by paying $14 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BANKING: Transamerica v. Eccles | 2/13/1956 | See Source »

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