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...many unspectacular ways, the six-year military dictatorship of Lieut. General Ibrahim Abboud was a Pan-African success story. When he seized power in 1958, the Sudan had suffered under three bungling governments in less than three years of independence...
...During a six-year U.S. Government mission in India, Illinois-born Dr. Frank W. Parker, 67, was appalled by the millions of sacred cows roaming the land, dangerously overgrazing the fields, eating food desperately needed for human consumption. Because of Hindu religious scruple, the cows can neither be slaughtered nor eaten. There are even old cows' homes...
...after a six-year battle to gain control of the Yards--for which it finally bid over $5 million--the University seems close to admitting defeat and announcing an alternate location for the House. The selection of an architect is expected to be announced at the same time...
When Peru's President Fernando Belaúnde Terry began his six-year term last year, the rumbles were as loud as an Andean avalanche. Backed by the army, Belaúnde scraped into power with a bare 39% of the vote, and ranged against him were two men capable of destroying his fragile government-old-time APRA Party Chieftain Victor Raul Haya de la Torre, 69, and ex-Dictator Manuel Odría, 66. Both had been candidates against Belaúnde, ripped him as a "demagogue," even tried to pin a Red tag on him when leftists...
Humphrey won election to the Senate that year, and no sooner had he been sworn in than he rose to lace into his Senate colleagues. "What people want," he cried, "is for the Senate to function! Sometimes I think we become so cozy-we feel so secure in our six-year term-that we forget that the people want things done...