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Most Sincere. Three years ago Laureano put up moderate Mariano Ospina Perez for president. Ospina won because of a Liberal split. Many thought Laureano might have the good sense to put up another moderate this year. But the fires of April 9 burned too brightly in his memory. Liberals, moreover, heaped on fresh fuel. United behind middle-of-the-road Dario Echandia, and fed to the teeth by unsuppressed rural political violence (392 deaths in September according to the Liberals), they used their congressional majority to advance the election date six months to Nov. 27 in expectation of a quick...
...meeting last Thursday to elect a president, that the Advocate's split first burst into the open. At that time three editors--A. Chase Shafer '51, William H. Wiggin '50, and Norris W. Darrell '51 resigned...
...internal split in the Advocate which led to the formation last Thursday of a new Harvard magazine by three ex-Advocate editors, is expected to be settled tomorrow night at a meeting of the older magazine's full board of editors...
...resignation of three of the chief objectors to the Advocate's policy has not completely healed the split...
...parity program is to give farmers a stable purchasing power, based on some former period of prosperity. The House plan would determine such a period and then maintain it as the price base; the Senate, on the other hand, favors more flexibility in the computing of support prices. Badly split, the Democratic ranks are fighting to hold the states they won in 1948, while the G.O.P. is doing its best to win them back. The farmers can only sit back and wait for an adjournment-hungry Congress to battle...