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...guarantee free elections." Nothing had really changed. Paz Tejada, who owed his present job to ex-Defense Minister Arbenz, had delivered the army's support to its old boss when he most needed it. And Juan José Arévalo was still president, having survived the 28th attempt against his regime in his five years in office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GUATEMALA: Twenty-Eighth Try | 8/7/1950 | See Source »

Jerry Porter took 19th place in the slalom, with Houser 31st, Captain Bill Wasserman 35th, and John Hart, normally a cross-country and jump man, 49th. Harvard could field only a three-man team in the 50-meter jump. Hart jumped 110 and 105 feet to place 28th. Wasserman and Captain-elect Jim Weaver followed in 35th and 40th positions respectively...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Skiers Finish Tenth In Colorado Invitation Meet | 4/10/1950 | See Source »

...will win the long run battle in China if we do not antagonize the Chinese people by blunders like seizing Formosa," Edwin O. Reischauer Ph.D. '39, associate professor of Far Eastern Languages, told the 28th annual session of the Massachusetts League of Women Voters yesterday afternoon in Radcliffe's Agassiz Theater...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reischauer Asks Patience on China | 1/26/1950 | See Source »

...More Money. The meeting lasted only 30 minutes. Then Attlee took his wife to a matinee at the Criterion to celebrate their 28th wedding anniversary. The play was a farce based on the plight of rich Britons stranded in a swank Swedish hotel after having spent all the money (?50) Attlee's government allows tourists to take out of Britain. At one point, a player remarked wanly: "My accountant has forbidden me to die until the Tories get back." Attlee just smiled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Slow Starter | 1/23/1950 | See Source »

...Selznick Releasing Organization had turned down a chance to book the British-made The Fallen Idol into Manhattan's 6,000-seat Radio City Music Hall, instead waited patiently to put it into the 550-seat Sutton theater, where the British-made Quartet was in its 28th week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Sureseaters | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

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