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Dictator Gustavo Rojas Pinilla's barefaced drive to re-elect himself President of Colombia piled up enough opposition last week to bring it to a shaky halt. Joined to thwart the strongman's second-term ambitions, the Roman Catholic Church under Crisanto Cardinal Luque, the newly united Liberal and Conservative Parties and the belligerent university students took direct action. Caught by surprise, the President hesitated. Then he moved what he said were 35,000 troops into Bogotá to regain control...
Last week, after press photographers had scrambled for months to provide Ike with a second-term portrait, Jim Hagerty announced the new winner: George Tames. The Timesman's entry, a third unsmiling pre-broadcast shot, was taken in February when the President was about to go on the air with his annual appeal for the American Red Cross...
...Herbert, recently elected to the Ohio Supreme Court. Chosen mayor of Portland in 1948, Republican Lee displayed the kind of independence necessary for her new job: announcing that "sex, as such, has no place in politics," she declared all-out war on prostitution and gambling dens. Losing a second-term try in 1952, she was named by Ike to the Justice Department's Parole Board, then to the Subversive Activities Control Board last August to succeed fellow Northwesterner Harry Cain of Washington...
...size: "What peace? Our peace seems to consist of a balance of terror in the world." Stevenson was appalled by the world around him. "NATO has never been so weak ... We have no policy in the Middle East." He quoted Eisenhower as saying at the time of his second-term announcement that some of the presidential work "can now be done by my close associates as well as by myself." Said Adlai: "I could not help but think of that little rhyme: 'This would not be sinister if we had a Prime Minister...
Despite the risk involved, Dr. White has encouraged the president's second-term plans. In doing this he may not only be voicing his opinion of the president's health, but lending hope for a normal future to cardiac patients all over the world. M.J. HALBERSTAM...