Word: beares
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even harder to bear was the return to De Gaulle of Jacques Soustelle, the beetle-browed ex-Governor General of Algeria whose demagogic appeals for integration into France had made him the white hope of the Algerian diehards. At De Gaulle's behest, Soustelle last week slipped off to Paris in a special plane, trailing behind him uncharacteristically moderate remarks about "federal possibilities" for Algeria, and a cloud of rumors that he was about to receive a government post. Watching him go, the diehards suddenly recognized that there might be more than one explanation for the fact that cold...
Lusty Statesman. Luis Muñoz Marin (TIME Cover, May 2, 1949), who provides the sense of leadership, is a man with a bear's body and the somber visage of a St. Bernard. On the crystal chandelier over his desk nests a pair of birds that fly in and out of the always open door. "He is kind to animals," says his wife Inez, "and even kinder to humans." His salary is $10,000 a year. His wealth, as itemized before the 1956 election, consisted of $562 and a house with 16 years...
...important export: coffee. Traditionally, the U.S. has maintained that coffee marketing should operate solely on the basis of supply and demand; in times of high prices, the coffee-growing nations cashed in happily, but in the all-too-frequent years of sagging prices and unwieldy surpluses they had to bear the losses and hope for better days. Even before Vice President Nixon's tour of Latin America, the U.S. was considering shifting its position. Last week, as part of the post-Nixon new look in U.S.-Latin American relations (TiME, June 2 et seg.), the U.S. agreed to join...
...were 100% homosexual;
all the rest were "mixed" cases with varying degrees of
heterosexuality. While half definitely preferred the company of other
males, 18 preferred that of women (13 were indifferent). Several would
have been willing to marry for the sake of having children, but could
not bear the thought of heterosexual intercourse.
...jump to increased buying pressure from such big investors as mutual funds (which now hold some 4% of all shares on the New York Stock Exchange) and pension funds. Another major reason was that the analysts themselves were changing their gloomy tune and encouraging many a holdout bear to hurry into the market for fear of missing it altogether. In the subtle psychological change, the weight of opinion was against any sharp break back to the recession lows. Instead, Wall Street's shrewd professionals speculated that the market would hang fairly close to the 450-460 level before edging...