Word: ben
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...through the fall of one French government and the emergence of another, French-Tunisian negotiations have ground on in Paris, sometimes almost grinding to a halt. In the climactic stages. Premier Faure himself headed up the French negotiators. The nominal head of the Tunisian delegation was portly Premier Tahar Ben Amar, a wealthy pro-French landlord. But the real Tunisian string-puller, behind the scenes, was handsome, saturnine Habib Bourguiba, exiled leader of Tuisia's nationalist Neo-Destour Party and an authentic political genius...
...down to two minor ones: the French insisted on equal French representation in the municipal governments of five towns, and that the Tunisians were unwilling to grant; and the French wanted military control of the Libyan frontier (to prevent Arab infiltrators coming in from the east), and that Premier Ben Amar was unwilling to yield. Faure was about to give in, when an irate lobby representing French planters (the colons) and civil servants in Tunisia brought their powerful pressure to bear...
...residence. After being closeted two hours with Faure, Bourguiba came out smiling broadly, and issued an optimistic statement. Much heartened, the Premiers of France and Tunisia got to work again, and at 1:25 a.m. gave out the joyful word: they had reached agreement. Almost choked with emotion, Premier Ben Amar said: "This is our wedding day." Said Premier Faure: "We must wipe the slate clean of past grievances and consider the future." As a reward for Bourguiba, all restrictions on his movements were taken off: he was free to return to Tunisia...
...first doubles, the Bartholet brothers bowed in three sets to Ben Heckscher and Gravem, and Mayers and Harris disposed of Dick Stendel and Ernest Crocker in second doubles, 6-3, 6-3. Fischer and Canfield beat Norbert Wagner and Erick Eybye in the final match...
...white-collar worker who's never ben further away than New York reads American literature he missed in business school next to an Indian student who has studied all over the world and now wants to enhance his knowledge of Americana...