Word: sevens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Communist coalition had swept 94 out of 126 legislative seats. By combining to eliminate three-and four-cornered races, the Congress Party, Praja Socialists and Moslem League, usually at one another's throats, concentrated on the Reds instead. Swept out of office were seven out of eleven ministers of the Communist regime. Kerala's Red boss, E.M.S. Namboodiripad, the former chief minister, survived only by switching to a safe constituency...
Disarrayed Traffic. But all that is in the past. A shy and scholarly man, Hirohito is happier dissecting shellfish than chatting with workers. The seven top court chamberlains found it relatively easy to rebuild the Chrysanthemum Curtain that has traditionally walled off the Emperor from his subjects. When, occasionally, Hirohito grew restive at the silken bonds, the chamberlains were ready with smooth explanations. Did the Emperor wish to browse in a Tokyo bookstore? They warned that "such a visit would put the booksellers to great expense and trouble, and would also disarray traffic." Did he wish to visit a sick...
...best hope. The proposed visit of the young couple to the U.S. in May (Michiko's first child is expected in March) has been taken as evidence that when Akihito mounts the throne he will not become a prisoner of the chamberlains like his father. Thereupon the seven chamberlains urged postponement of Akihito's trip until well after President Eisenhower's visit to Japan in June, "to prevent members of the imperial family being used as a political instrument." Besides, they said, the Crown Prince should first repay visits from Ethiopia's Haile Selassie and Iran...
...jail, quietly tried them and handed them 30-year sentences. Departing from normal practice, U.S. State Department Spokesman Lincoln White volunteered that the U.S. was "concerned" about the effect of the arrest of plotters on "basic humanitarian principles in the Americas." But the U.S. Navy, not keyed in, sent seven ships to Ciudad Trujillo harbor to let the crews have liberty ashore. The imposing sight of the anchored U.S. Aircraft Carrier Intrepid, with its jets ready on the flight deck, and of bluejackets all over the streets, gave most Dominicans the impression that the U.S. was backing Trujillo...
...Plimpton reasons that giving up practice for pedagogy "isn't really so terribly much of a hop." The new president has another compensation: Amherst is already well-heeled (endowment: $24 million). Cracks Plimpton: "They told me definitely that I wouldn't have to start raising money for seven days...