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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Vanishing Files. One potentially formidable roadblock to Jimmy Hoffa's plans is a three-member Board of Monitors, set up in early 1958 by Federal Judge F. Dickinson Letts to watch over Teamster affairs...
...Africa, the toughest black leadership tends also to be the most capable. President Tubman has pulled Liberia out of a century of backwardness. Haile Selassie personally set up a constitution, decreed Parliament and Ethiopia's first elections. The way that Sekou Toure organized his country in five short years and under the very noses of the French was a masterpiece...
...against the West Bengal administration of Chief Minister Dr. B. C. Roy, the 77-year-old leader of the local Congress Party, accusing his regime of corruption, misrule, nepotism and graft -much of it true. A "Famine Resistance Committee" drew up plans for mass defiance of the law and set August 20 as the trysting...
...efficient use of force plus the growing unpopularity of the Communists had this time saved West Bengal's flabby administration. Undeterred, the Reds set August 31 as the new date when "fire will rage through Calcutta...
...husband in 76 B.C. Last week in Israel a third woman took over, but for the first two days not even members of the Cabinet knew it. Finally, Foreign Minister Golda Meir, 61, rose in the Cabinet to inform her colleagues that Premier David Ben-Gurion, 72, had set sail for a much-needed vacation on the Riviera, had kept his departure secret to avoid any fuss. Before he left, he had written a letter designating who should take over his duties as Premier and Minister of Defense. Israel's new boss pro tem: Milwaukee-schooled Mrs. Meir...