Word: command
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...head the Latin American delegation. Hora- cio Godoy, an expert on South America's foreign policy and Professor of Law at the University of La Plata, will contrast his opinions with those of the former secretary of the Cuban Sugar Institute, Henrique Menoca, who was until recently second in command to Che Guevera, the Cuban Finance Minister...
...chances were something like hitting the daily double five days in a row, but the Republican high command began to wonder if they weren't worth a bet. Three days after election, G.O.P. National Chairman Thruston Morton had asked party leaders in eleven states to evaluate the narrow Democratic results and see whether expensive recounts (e.g., $50 a ballot box or voting machine in Pennsylvania) would be worthwhile. Most of the party leaders sent negative replies. But last week, after an emergency meeting of the National Committee in Washington, G.O.P. investigators moved into eight marginal states (Illinois, Texas, Missouri...
...this point the new winds from New York began to blow. Under heavy Afro-Asian pressure, the U.N. had been tacitly supporting Lumumba's contention that he is still Premier of the Congo despite his dismissal three months ago by Kasavubu -and had been treating Kasavubu's commands with a gentlemanly disdain. Now, apparently with an eye on the Assembly vote, the U.N. command shifted its stance slightly, ruled that if served with a formal expulsion order, Welbeck would have to get out, since the U.N. "does not intend to interfere in the relations between the government...
...machinery, Sourdough Wayne picks up a package (Capucine) for his prospector pal (Stewart Granger). Though sorely tempted, the big dope delivers the package still wrapped. Can't he see that the girl is madly in love with him? Probably not: Actress Capucine has only one expression at her command, a look of tender gastritis. When Wayne and friend get back to the mine. Granger fails to hit paydirt and so does his little brother (Fabian). In the end, after a belly-busting burlesque of the standard barroom brawl, Wayne gets the girl, and the villain (Ernie Kovacs) gets covered...
Awkward Period. Ted Bensinger, a great-grandson of the founder of the company (formerly called Brunswick-Balke-Collender Co.), was company president and second-in-command to his elder brother Bob, the chairman, when he became worried about Brunswick's almost total dependence on its bowling business. In the early 1950s he pushed through a small diversification program, turning out aircraft components and school furniture. But before he could do more, his _ worst fears came true. American Machine & Foundry Co. invaded the bowling market with its automatic Pinspotter, which eliminated pin boys-and started bowling on its boom...