Word: terme
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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...
Most Old Guard Senators are genuinely fond of Dwight Eisenhower as a fine fellow. They were even willing to go along with the thing called Modern Republicanism when Ike first used the term. But they were awaiting an opening-and they got it when George Humphrey, without any hint of reproof from the President, called into question not only the budget and its programs but, in effect, Ike's leadership...
...from Negroes. In 1951 he approved of a national convention of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in Atlanta, furnished a police honor escort from and to the airport for a visiting Negro dignitary, Diplomat Ralph Bunche. Last week, nevertheless, Bill Hartsfield, 67, won his sixth term as mayor, narrowly beating out a rival for the Democratic nomination in Atlanta's biggest mayoralty vote (one-third Negro). In Georgia the Democratic primary victory means election...
...industry to New Orleans, prompted private capital to construct 25 major buildings in eleven years, raised property values in once dilapidated areas from 95? a square foot to $25. But it has done something even more important. Morrison next year is an odds-on favorite to win a fourth term, is being talked about as a potential governor of Louisiana or U.S. Senator. His success demonstrates a political maxim that last-hurrahing wardheelers across the U.S. are rapidly learning: a hard-nosed, hard-pushed program of municipal reconstruction can do more than patronage, back-scratching or the food basket...
...well-coached Assembly obediently elected Rojas to a new four-year term beginning in 1958. After the election Rojas addressed the nation by radio and television. In soothing tones, he blamed the riots and strikes on the "oligarchs" (businessmen). He tried to make his peace with the church by declaiming that "the government is Catholic...