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During the discussion, Carl Sloane '58, Council vice-president, said that the new system would result in the "Bullet Ballot," voting only for one person. He cited as evidence of such possible malfeasance examples of voter manipulation by ballot-box watchers he had seen in Dunster and Lowell Houses...
...there a rival to be disposed of? Stalin would have had his secret police torture the offender, then put a bullet in his neck. Nikita Khrushchev, up against Marshal Georgy Zhukov, the second most powerful man in the U.S.S.R., brainwashed the stubborn soldier within a week, relegated him to obscurity with airy insouciance: "I saw Zhukov today. He is in good health. We have not yet decided on a new job for him, but he will get one for which he is experienced and qualified...
Also Bay Rum. Al's eyes were still closed when the first bullet made a hole in his pudgy left hand. Both gunmen fired at him. Another slug went through Al's clothes, made him jump as though he had been hit with a baseball bat, and bloodied the soft, warm, white, middle-aged flesh of his right side. Al just had time to realize he was being killed. He kicked out in such convulsive fright that he broke the chair's metal footrest. Then he lurched up in adenoidal agony and knocked over a bottle...
...liberation era" of Carlos Castillo Armas, the rebel colonel who threw a pro-Communist regime out of power in 1954 only to die of an assassin's bullet last July, came crashing to an end in Guatemala last week. An election staged by Castillo's successors to keep the liberator's Nationalist Democratic Movement (M.D.N.) in office turned out to have been so patently rigged that not even the government tried to uphold it. Harnessing popular anger over the fraud, the opposition candidate, General Miguel Ydigoras Fuentes, 62, made a tumultuous bid to take power...
...charged Ydigoras with plotting in connivance with "Communist groups." Some 300 helmeted troops and cops, armed with Tommy guns and armored cars, deployed before the National Palace, but the raging mob formed again, and charged until driven off by tear gas and cracking rifles. A girl died of a bullet in the back of her head; downtown Guatemala City was littered with broken glass, tree limbs and burnt crates...