Word: succeeding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most shameful moment of national life in Latin America comes when a military dictator strikes out the nearly standard constitutional provision forbidding a President to succeed himself, and prolongs his own term. When that moment came last week in Colombia, civilians-students, bankers and priests-told the strongman to go. For the intimate story, see HEMISPHERE, The Strongman Falls...
...will succeed John H. Van Vleck, who plans to resume his research in mathematical physics. Van Vleck, Hollis Professor or Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, expects to prepare an enlarged edition of his "Theory of Electric and Magnetic Susceptibilities...
...brash and impulsive attempt to eliminate Valencia brought Rojas' smooth-running re-election campaign to a stop. Rojas had hand-picked a new Constituent Assembly, and the assembly quickly drew up a bill to suspend the constitutional provisions that a President must be popularly elected and cannot succeed himself. But a dispute between Military Dictator Rojas and his non-military supporters as to whether the Vice President should be a soldier or a civilian slowed the process...
...items in President Eisenhower's domestic program, few seem less likely to succeed than federal aid for school construction. But would the defeat of this proposal be as great a calamity as its backers insist? Last week TIME surveyed the 48 states to find out. The answer: no. Though the nation as a whole must keep building classrooms faster than ever before, a surprisingly big proportion of the states do not need-or do not want-any help from the Government...
...Ernest Sterling Marsh, 54, was elected president of the century-old Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co., longest U.S. railroad (13,076 miles) and fourth largest in operating revenue ($590 million in 1956), succeeding Fred G. Gurley, 68, Santa Fe president since 1944, who becomes board chairman. Marsh left the eleventh grade in 1918 to join the Santa Fe as a clerk in Clovis, N. Mex., went to Chicago as chief clerk in the president's office in 1942. Two years later, he was made assistant to the president, and in 1948 became vice president in charge of finance...