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Shinwell had put the Government on a hot spot. But since the Labor Party had a clear majority and there was no split in its ranks, the Government probably would not fall. Nevertheless Clement Attlee's regime was in the worst crisis of its 18 months in power and the nation had had its worst jolt since the buzz-bombs began to fall...
Colombia's major parties are Conservatives and Liberals. For 16 years, the Liberals had elected a President. But last year, Gaitan, running as a breakaway Liberal candidate, split his own party by attacking Gabriel Turbay, the official Liberal candidate. Colombia, cried Gaitan, needed a candidate issued from a "Colombian belly." Turbay's parents were Syrian...
...born 53 years ago in the Dalmatian town of Spalato (now the Yugoslav town of Split) but spent his childhood in Lvov. His father was a Polish surgeon in the Austrian Army...
...Religions may split into sect or heresy; dynasties may perish or be supplanted, but for century after century the University will continue, and the stream of life will pass through it, and the thinker and the seeker will be bound together in the undying cause of bringing thought into the world...
...right side. For this sop they are told to "clean their own house" and the battle goes merrily on while the newspapers' circulation climbs. Whatever the reason for the inability of sober-minded Boston to cope with the greatest lack in its society, the opposing factions seem to have split the pie. Bostonians now get murder with their coffee and morals with their tea, all the while remaining blissfully ignorant of what goes on outside the city limits...