Word: thirds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rebel Chieftain Fidel Castro, pushing out foot by foot from the Sierra Maestra, near which he landed Dec. 2, 1956. now dominates a third of the island's land area (see map). His strength in guerrillas and arms is rising, but exactly how much is a secret veiled by the downed wires and cut roads that go into the wild country he lurks in. Dictator Fulgencio Batista keeps a hold on Havana, where a fifth of all Cubans live, and all other sizable cities, and still controls the labor unions, most of the press, an army estimated...
...greatest presiding officer the Senate ever had," much better, in fact, than "the squirrel head we have now. I'm talking about Mr. Nixon," he beamed. While newsmen eavesdropped, salty Cactus Jack compared notes with Truman ("I loved Roosevelt," murmured Garner, who broke with the boss over the third-term issue, "but I didn't want any Czars for president"), lamented: "They never gave me credit for holding the most important job I've ever had." "What's that?" asked Harry. "I was superintendent of schools in '93," answered Garner. "The youth of the country...
...from the Hauran Desert in Arab headdresses. Each delegate was allowed three nominations. In the balloting, 42 votes went to Archbishop Ignatius Hraike, a stern Arab nationalist from Hama, Syria, 32 votes went to 73-year-old Archbishop Theodosios Abu Rajaili of Tripoli, oldest of the archbishops. Tied for third place were pro-Soviet Candidate Ghea and young Archbishop Elias Moawad of Aleppo, reputedly the most anti-Communist...
...Vaticaners feel, with a view to restoring the traditional Italian majority, but to revive Italian pride in the "senate of the church." Noted Corriere Delia Sera: "Even though the number of non-Italians is still preponderant, at least we are no longer the miserable one-third that we were reduced to during the previous pontificate...
Andrew Imbrie: Third String Quartet (Walden String Quartet; Contemporary Records). A sinewy, inventive, virtuoso work by one of the most gifted of the younger U.S. composers. Bold of theme, rawly colorful in its sonorities, it is both an abrasive and a stimulating musical tonic...