Word: units
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...able to do it this year. They were wrong. Republican Candidate Theodore Roosevelt Dalton got almost 45% of the votes, more than any Republican candidate for governor in Virginia history (the 50-year average: 29%), but it was not enough. Furniture Manufacturer Thomas B. Stanley, backed by every unit of Harry Byrd's Democratic machine, was elected by a margin of more than 44,000 votes. In their own Virginia way, the Byrdmen pitched their campaign against Dalton on the argument that he was a big-spending, high-debt, New Deal type...
After the rites, in the late afternoon, some 12,000 patriotic Trieste Italians poured back into the city. They sang, shouted slogans. Hundreds moved toward the Piazza dell'Unitá, Trieste's central square, on which the city hall stands, and were joined by crowds of students. Trieste's special police were alerted, and arrived in jeeps. The marchers jeered them...
...burning British cars and police jeeps. They burst into the city hall and ran an Italian flag up to half-staff. On the third day they broke into Independentista headquarters, threw furniture, draperies and records out of the windows. When the rioters surged toward the Piazza dell'Unitá again, the police tried to stop them with jeep and motorcycle charges. Then they fired their carbines into the crowd, and that cleared the square, except for the dead and wounded...
...Burma says 12,000) Nationalist Chinese troops .and hangers-on in northern Burma. After Burmese protests in the U.N.. the General Assembly backed the Rangoon government, and an agreement was negotiated to bring out some 2,000 of the alien guests with their unit commanders. Last week's evacuees were the first installment...
...broke out in demands for a special commuter's center equipped with beds and easy chairs. The center was bought but there are no chairs or beds as yet. It stands today as an empty reminder of Brown's struggle to bind the college into a social and academic unit, a struggle which is so far fairly successful...