Word: withe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Back in Manila, proudly wearing MacArthur's Medal of Freedom, Lewin opened a cabaret and became the city's leading sports promoter (including the world's bantamweight boxing championship match in 1947). But he hit the really big money with a gambling joint called the Key Club...
But one man was determined not to let Lewin get away with his activities. The chief of the National Bureau of Investigation, Lieut. Colonel Jose G. Lukban, an old Magsaysay man, wrote a letter to the Deportation Board citing Lewin as "a dangerously undesirable alien" guilty of 1) black-marketing...
The candidates bickered just as noisily. Zik suggested that Awolowo had the backing of British business interests with millions invested in Nigeria (correct: they distrust Zik). Awolowo, campaigning by helicopter, replied by calling Zik a crook and an oppressor. Both were under attack from the third major figure in the...
Governor's Option. With both Zik and the Sardauna against him, Awolowo, despite the most money and the best organization, trailed badly. As the ballots were counted, the Sardauna's North swung ahead of Zik, but if no one got a clear majority, it would be left to...
The Gamble. The Comodoro Rivadavia field is a dramatic sample of a daring gamble by Frondizi that paid off. Bucking emotional Argentine nationalism, Frondizi last year invented an imaginative patchwork of "service and development" contracts between foreign oil companies and the state monopoly, Yacimientos Petroliferos Fiscales (YPF). The device has...