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...most elaborate anti-fraud safeguards in the country's history and then cast their votes for a new President from among three leading candidates: Victor Raul Haya de la Torre, 67, founder of the longoutlawed, Marxist-turned-moderate APRA Party; Fernando Belaunde Terry, 49, a wellborn, highly nationalistic architect who narrowly lost the 1956 presidential elections; and Manuel Odria, 64, Dictator-President of Peru from 1950 to 1956, who is remembered for both his strong arm and liberal public works...
...vent. Explains a company executive: "If you're talking about 1,000 units, a $50 bill on every house becomes quite a piece of change.'' Like many another innovator, Cluff Major stumbled onto tractitioning. Raised in Thatcher, Ariz., he planned to be an architect, but when his family could not afford to send him to college, he settled for the next best thing: home appraising. When the G.I. loan program ignited the postwar housing boom, he found himself spending most of his free time doing renderings and elevations for builders on his dining room table. Eventually, struck...
...years. Not until 1956 did Odria hold another election. Once again APRA was the power behind the scenes, helped elect Manuel Prado, a conservative banker, to the presidency in return for winning legality as a party. It also made an enemy of Fernando Belaúnde, a well-born architect who at 43 went into politics in a big way and cultivated wide support from both left and right with a spellbinding appeal to Peruvian nationalism. He lost to Prado by only 106,000 votes and blamed his defeat on APRA...
Woodrow Wilson dropped out of North Carolina's Davidson College, later went on to Princeton. Robert Frost quit Dartmouth and William Faulkner the University of Mississippi. Architect Edward D. Stone dropped out of the University of Arkansas. Henry Ford II left Yale; his fellow auto tycoon, George Romney, spent only a year at the University of Utah. Psychiatrist Karl Menninger quit Kansas' Washburn College after two years; California's Episcopal Bishop James A. Pike left the University of Santa Clara after his sophomore year. Oil Billionaire J. Paul Getty failed to finish at U.S.C., Berkeley or Oxford...
...first postwar architect, Sir Giles Scott, resigned after three years of architectural and clerical bickering. The Coventry city council refused a building permit, arguing that the city had first to catch up in schools, homes and clinics. Minister of Works Sir David Eccles wrote the Lord Mayor: "Can we be sure that a cathedral would be so useless? We have never had a greater need for an act of faith." He overruled the council. A competition for design drew more than 600 requests for specifications and 219 final plans. The winner was bearded, eloquent Basil Spence, who fainted...