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...October 1948, when he seized power as the leader of a military coup, General Manuel Odria has ruled Peru as a fatherly, sometimes Big Brotherly dictator. Elected President in 1950 in a one-candidate race, Odria said recently that he intended to step down at the end of his six-year term, handing his office over to a constitutionally elected successor. Many of his countrymen doubted whether the strongman, only 57, really meant it, but last week, in a published interview with touring New York Timesman Herbert L. Matthews, Odria repeated his intention with notable firmness. He gave two reasons...
...Gustav Heinemann, 55, for a second term as president. Heinemann, who violently opposed Adenauer's alignment with the West and campaigned against German rearmament, was discarded in favor of the Rev. Dr. Constantin von Dietze, 63, Cambridge-educated former rector of Freiburg University. Elected without opposition for another six-year term as chairman of the church council: Bishop Otto Dibelius...
...bulge came in 1953, when plane-short Northwest had to shift its Boeing Stratocruisers from the Pacific to domestic and Orient runs and fly DC-4s to Hawaii. In 1954 Northwest made up most of the loss, ran almost neck and neck with Pan Am. Over the entire six-year test period, Northwest was the real leader, having flown 31,038 passengers to Pan Am's 30,700. As for subsidies, Northwest had previously said that it would fly the route without Government subsidy, expected to be self-supporting by 1956. From other sources Ike also got a quick...
...office of Register pays $10,000 a year for a six-year term. The Mayor's salary...
...rich Bengal landowner, Ali served as an envoy abroad from the time of Pakistan's creation until last year. On a brief trip home, to his surprise, he was chosen Prime Minister-partly because he had not been entangled in politics during his six-year absence. He shook hands with hungry Pakistanis on Karachi's streets, earnestly said: "I am one of you, and I will do all my best...