Word: sloganism
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Remembering the Slogan. Written by Monsignor Germán Guzmán Campos, 50, who has spent almost all his life among the backlands peasantry, the book traces the slaughter back to 1948, when 18 years of sporadic fighting between the bitterly antagonistic Liberal and Conservative parties was climaxed by the murder of Liberal Leader Jorge Eliécer Gaitán. "His voice," says Guzmán, "was the cry of the rural people, who upon hearing of his death, remembered his historic slogan...
...first concrete step the situation cries out for, resumption of publication by the dailies which have not been struck, should have been taken long ago. The publishers' slogan, "a strike against one is a strike against all," is self-destructive; the "all for one" policy, in any event, is spottily enforced. Earlier this fall, when the Newspaper Guild struck the Daily News for eight days, none of the other papers closed down. Also, and more importantly, the publishers ignored their responsibility to the public when they chose to complete the press blackout. With three newspapers the city could at least...
...city. The rest of the world could also celebrate, for leader of the proud new republic would be Julius Nyerere, 40, a sensible, spindly onetime schoolteacher, who listens to the raucous cries of "Uhuru" (freedom) from the fiery nationalists of Africa, then puts his personal addendum on the slogan: "Uhuru na Kazi"-freedom and work...
Died. James Joseph Kilroy, 60, an inspector in Bethlehem Steel's Quincy shipyards, who may or may not have been the Kilroy who was there; of lung cancer; in Boston. In answer to a 1946 American Transit Association contest to discover the originator of the World War II slogan carried by G.I.s to the ends of the earth, Kilroy replied that he had crawled deep inside ships' hulls, chalking KILROY WAS HERE as his inspector's mark. The Transit Association thought enough of his explanation to award him a prize: a 22-ton streetcar, which his nine...
...candidate seemingly needed td" win was the Gaullists' magic slogan on the ballot: "For the Fifth Republic." In Marseille, U.N.R. Candidate Yves Le Tac, a stranger to the area, who had survived two assassination attempts by the SAO in France, went into hiding throughout the campaign for fear of SAO retaliation. In the end, he led all candidates, including a millionaire shipowner who is one of the region's few popular capitalists. Independent Deputy Edouard Frédéric-Dupont, who has presided over his Paris district so long that he is called the "Archbishop...