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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most Sincere. Three years ago Laureano put up moderate Mariano Ospina Perez for president. Ospina won because of a Liberal split. Many thought Laureano might have the good sense to put up another moderate this year. But the fires of April 9 burned too brightly in his memory. Liberals, moreover, heaped on fresh fuel. United behind middle-of-the-road Dario Echandia, and fed to the teeth by unsuppressed rural political violence (392 deaths in September according to the Liberals), they used their congressional majority to advance the election date six months to Nov. 27 in expectation of a quick...
...ruins of five separate lines, it has grown into a $2.4 billion empire which operates 24,178 miles of main track, twelve hotels, three steamship lines, an airline (TransCanada) and a nationwide telegraph service. It has become Canada's biggest employer (some 111,000). In recent years, C.N.R. has earned money on its operations, but, except for the war years, has seldom shown a net profit. Last year's earnings ($26.5 million) were not enough to meet even half the interest payments on C.N.R.'s longstanding debt-a whopping $1.3 billion...
...York City's Mayor William O'Dwyer, 59, running for reelection, was a likely candidate for marriage as well. Photographers snapped him at St. Patrick's Cathedral and the ballet with brunette, thirtyish ex-Model Sloan Simpson, a fashion consultant whom he met about a year ago. Newsmen scraped together hints that suggested a wedding by Christmas. It would be the second for each.* The most piquant hint came from the mayor himself. Asked pointblank for his intentions, O'Dwyer parried: "I will discuss that after the election." Then he leaned back in his chair...
...Hollywood, where actresses traditionally shun fleshy publicity poses once they become stars, pressagents gingerly asked 42-year-old Barbara Stanwyck to get into a bathing suit for some photographs. Barbara beamed: "I've been perfectly willing to pose for cheesecake art, but nobody ever asked...
...when thrown in Tibet by a half-wild pony, he could reminisce about his native diet of yak butter and yak meat cooked over fires of yak dung; his recorded broadcast from the forbidden Tibetan capital (carried to India by yak), and his gifts to Tibet's 15-year-old Dalai Lama (a gold & silver Siamese tiger skull, an alarm clock, a raincoat...