Word: actes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Back Talk. First, Labor's Hugh Gaitskell tried to turn Britain's recent financial settlement with Nasser into a formal censure of the 1956 Suez invasion, which he described as a "disastrous act of folly almost without parallel in our history." Nor was ailing Tory Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden alone to blame, he went on: "There were others involved, and they were not ill." Jabbing his finger at Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd, Gaitskell cried: "I believe that the guilty men are sitting there on those benches. It is time that they were...
...them against them. If undemocratic methods are necessary, I will be the least democratic of all.'' The honorable members rapped their desks in well-bred applause, then began debating a drastic series of bills to slap down the blacks even harder. Among them: a "Preventive Detention Act" which for the next five years would give Rhodesian police the power to detain indefinitely suspected nationalists or anyone "likely to endanger the public safety." Under the act the police could issue detention orders without the approval of any court and the only appeal would be to a star chamber composed...
...classic of doubletalk. Siles promised the U.S. to cut the subsidy gradually over a period of four months. To the union leaders, he promised a 35% pay raise. Result: everyone went back to work, and the International Cooperation Administration mailed off a check. How long Siles can continue his act is another matter. Both the U.S. lenders and Bolivian takers remember that Siles has promised twice before to end the mine subsidy, and reneged each time...
...conquistadores. At first, only Europe's artists admired the primitive sculpture. Then, in 1867, when Maximilian's soldiers returned from Mexico with hundreds of figurines, the collectors' interest was piqued. One of the earliest finds was the famed stone statue of Goddess Tlazolteotl in the act of childbirth (see cut). A French collector first bought it for a few francs. Current owner: U.S. Collector Robert Woods Bliss, who has it insured...
Others ran what amounted to an airfreight service with private planes. Hoodlums entered the act, were even able to plunder government-willed collections. Artist Diego Rivera willed his fine collection to Mexico. It was pilfered before the government ever got it. Shortly after Anthropologist-Author Miguel Covarrubias died, some of the best pieces in his top-notch collection (also willed to Mexico) showed up first in a Texas gallery, then in a Manhattan gallery, which sold them to private collectors...