Word: tripped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Everything." His trip last spring to the Bandung conference, where Nehru and Chou En-lai made much of him, helped convince Nasser that he had become a world figure. His pressagents, exuberantly whooping up the cult of the Cairo hero, seem to have influenced him at least as much as their readers. Two years of almost unbridled authority have also left their mark. "I know everything that goes on in this country," he told a U.S. newsman recently. "I run everything myself...
Last week the sharpshooting young (40) governor found he had fallen wide of the mark. In a hotly contested primary election, the "many" dumped Fred Hall from the copper-domed State Capitol, sidetracked his frank hopes to parlay Kansas popularity into an eventual trip to Washington...
Pears & Hazelnuts. For a while Gulek tried to counter the police with Gandhian tactics-simple handshaking tours. For the last 100 miles of his trip he abandoned ship and moved by car along the lush southeastern shore of the Black Sea, where the corn grows eight feet tall and string beans climb way up over a man's head. In this country, where peasants came out to the road to present him with such local delicacies as pears and, hazelnuts, the handshaking tactics worked well enough. But in towns, where clouds of policemen sealed him off from the populace...
Besides Gulek's own display of personal courage, one sign that democracy is not yet dead in Turkey was the big black headlines in Istanbul's newspapers on Gulek's Black Sea trip. Despite the Menderes press-muzzling laws, the papers circumspectly managed to get the idea across...
...Semarang, in the heart of Java's Communist belt, President Sukarno of neutralist Indonesia last week delivered his first public report on the trip which he made to the U.S. two months ago. In the audience, at Sukarno's special request, was the able U.S. Ambassador to Indonesia, Hugh S. Gumming...