Word: stating
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Accra, the Ghana Times "humbly" suggested that the new baby be named either Amma Ghana or Kwame Ghana. In London, palace officials were busy looking up the proper procedure for setting up a Council of State to take on the Queen's duties later on. In the midst of popular enthusiasm, more sobersided politicians took note of another side effect of the news. With the Queen's presence in England next fall now assured (her acquiescence is necessary to the dissolution of Parliament), Prime Minister Harold Macmillan would have an extra month before having to call a general...
When he needed help to consolidate his coup d'état last year, Iraq's Premier Karim Kassem trustingly relied on the local Communists. Soon they controlled the press, the state radio and government censorship, key propaganda posts where they set to work creating the legend of the revolutionary hero, the Sole Leader. Friends tried to warn the Sole Leader that he was being had, but it took the shocking evidence of the Red-led killing and burning at Kirkuk (TIME, Aug. 3) and Mosul to convince Kassem that the Communists were out to divide, not to unite...
Moscow Coup. But the man who held the brightest spotlight was nowhere near Rio last week. He was 7,000 miles away in the person of Janio Quadros, 42, the homespun, popular ex-governor of Sao Paulo state and front-running candidate of the conservative National Democratic Union (U.D.N.). Topping off a round-the-world junket, Quadros followed Richard Nixon into Moscow, got himself a full 45 minutes with the jovial Nikita Khrushchev, came out to urge "the most rapid possible" resumption of diplomatic relations with Russia. Cockily, Janio added: "The Soviet Union gets its coffee from Africa and, judging...
...U.D.N. convention, then change to sloppy clothes and two-day beard and set out to improve his great following among Brazilian workers. Said he: "Marshal Lott is a distinguished patriot, but to become President it is also necessary to be popular." A recent poll in Brazil's 20 state capitals showed 72% for Quadros, 18% for Lott...
...physics (but also won prizes in theology and philosophy) at Loyola College, took .his doctorate at Washington's Catholic University of America, where he specialized in ultrasonics. A solid, 6-ft. 190-pounder and father of four. Thaler is a topnotch tennis player, has several times won the state doubles championship. Thaler took his sudden fame calmly. Reporters looking for him at his suburban home in Silver Spring, Md. found he had ducked out to buy his six-year-old son a small green turtle as a replacement for a pet chameleon that had died...