Word: smashes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nkrumah was convinced that to establish his infant government's authority he had to smash the tribal power of the chiefs, particularly over land tenure, and substitute the political power of his party machine. He summarily deported five tribal leaders, highhandedly displaced local officers and replaced them with his own men, concentrating on the center of resistance in the cocoa-rich Ashanti country...
...through rechecking the entries, there was no question about their choices. Out of 25,039 high school contestants, the two top prizes in the annual Westinghouse Science Talent Search went last week to a pair of precocious seniors from Newton (Mass.) High School. For his $121 cyclotron that can smash atoms, Reinier Beeuwkes III, 17, won the first prize, a $7,500 scholarship. For his prop-driven flying platform, Yugoslav-born Dushan Mitrovich, 18, won the second prize, a $6,000 scholarship...
...first public one-man show, Painter Winston Churchill last week scored a smash hit. On the day the show opened in Kansas City, Mo., 5,427 people* crowded into the Nelson Gallery of Art, setting a new one-day record. By the time the Kansas City showing closes this week, some 20,000 will have seen Sir Winston's impressionist-style canvases, ranging from a wartime scene of Flanders' "Plug Street" (Ploegsteert, Belgium, as translated by World War I Tommies), painted in 1916, down to last year's landscape of the French Riviera seen from Villa...
...full-fledged strongmen are left. Cuba's Fulgencio Batista, 57, who took power in a comeback coup when it became obvious that he could not win the 1952 election, is insecure in the saddle after trying for 14 months without success to smash an ever-strengthening guerrilla revolt in Cuba's eastern mountains. Only the Dominican Republic's Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, 66, now playing host to exiled Pérez Jiménez and his crew, still keeps the lid clamped shut on his rich, thoroughly cowed little island nation...
...applause card-that isn't show business. You aren't a success in show business until you do something that makes the people dig down in their pants pockets and buy a ticket." Last week so many people were digging down for tickets to his rollicking smash hit musical that Music Man Willson was a victim of his own success, had to watch one performance from standing room in the rear of the theater...