Word: lampposts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...secret in prearranged code to Anisimov. Sometimes he would cycle about in civilian clothes pretending to pick berries, but really sketching details of coastal fortifications. Later he would write a report in invisible ink, put it in the toolbox of his bike and leave it parked by a prearranged lamppost. Presently he would return and find another bike in its place. His reward, a bundle of money tied up in ribbons of Sweden's national blue and gold, would be lying in the second bike's toolbox...
Scholarly Paz Estenssoro, onetime Finance Minister and M.N.R. boss, fled to Argentina after the 1946 revolution, when a La Paz mob strung up the bullet-riddled body of M.N.R.-backed Dictator Gualberto Villarroel from a lamppost. Since then, Paz has lived mostly in Buenos Aires and Uruguay. Political confusion and economic difficulties at home paved the way for his startling comeback. But he did not win the absolute majority required for direct election. Congress, meeting in August, must now choose a President from among the three leading candidates (one of whom was backed by the present government...
From thatch-roofed Amazonian villages to dusty cattle towns on the Argentine border, the rasping blare of loudspeakers drowned out other sounds in Brazil last week. Sao Paulo's skyscrapers shook to political singing commercials. Sandwichmen stalked the streets on stilts scattering handbills. Placards adorned nearly every lamppost in the land. Office seekers barnstormed the backlands in chartered planes; at least two lost their lives trying to fly in & out of bush-country airfields...
...blew off La Paz last week for the first time since the bloody 1946 revolution in which the capital's citizens hanged their dictator from a lamppost. This time the capital's schoolteachers touched off the explosion by demanding higher pay to offset the government's recent currency devaluation. Within hours, a raging mob was surging through the streets denouncing Conservative President Mamerto Urriolagoitia (pronounced ooreo-la-goytcha...
Designed in keeping with the simple lines of Lamont, the lamppost replaces an older one which was removed last year. Police Chief Alvin R. Randall hailed it yesterday as a boon to campus cons...