Word: backed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Paul Land was there as he had been nearly every working day for 15 years. As he had for 15 years, he climbed aboard the second ancient coach of five, took the second seat on the left-hand side, unfolded the New York Times, and settled back for the 57-minute run to Jersey City, where he would get the Manhattan-bound ferry across the Hudson...
...Gaulle launched into a speaking tour of provincial cities ("France will once more be great," he told cheering throngs). Already he had the backing of all of the nation's major political parties except the Communists. The Socialists had been the last to fall in line when their party congress voted 2,786 to 1,176 in favor of out. The Roman Catholic Church issued a proclamation advising the faithful that they could vote for the new constitution even though it declared the Fifth Republic to be secular. Only a few voices were still raised against De Gaulle. Though...
...vast majority of Frenchmen there seemed little choice. Either they would go on to De Gaulle's new constitution, or they would go back to governmental chaos. Having had plenty of the latter, an estimated 60-70% will probably cast their votes for the constitution...
...founding conference in San Francisco, he helped draft the U.N. Covenants on Human Rights, won a name in the U.S. as "the good Malik" to distinguish him from Russia's U.N. Delegate Jacob Malik. Returning in 1955 to his Beirut university post, he was called back to public life as President Chamoun's Foreign Minister after the Suez crisis, charged with carrying out a policy that allied Lebanon more closely with the West than ever before. Though he is careful not to say so publicly, privately he is known to consider Nasser a sincere man who is dangerously...
Loping off into the sunset-and temporary bachelorhood-square-jawed Cinemactor Guy Madison reckoned he'd soon be back on the ranch with his bride of four years, sometime Starlet Sheila Connolly, and the three little Madisons. "There is no thought of divorce," said he. "I think when a girl has had three babies in rapid succession, it leaves her a little tired and depressed...