Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Algerian army band tootled discordantly through some 60 unfamiliar national anthems. Bureaucrats frantically cabled Paris to find out what had happened to 200 new Citroën limousines ordered for the great occasion. And Des Pins, a once tranquil seaside resort where the Algerian government insisted to the bitter end that the second Afro-Asian Conference would take place this week on schedule, looked like a manic blend of Hellzapoppin and The Last Days of Pompeii...
Meanwhile, the 14th Conference of Commonwealth Prime Ministers managed to work its way through an unexciting agenda. Predictably, the only bitter clash of the conference concerned the future of Rhodesia, which is clamoring for independence. Led by Ghana's Nkrumah, the black African Commonwealth nations demanded that Britain head off efforts by the colony's Prime Minister, Ian Smith, to ensure that Rhodesia's constitution will perpetuate white supremacy. The Africans wanted Britain to order one-man, one-vote elections within three months' time. Wilson, while promising to work toward majority rule by Rhodesia...
...most widely discussed article-a cruel, 11,000-word evisceration of The New Yorker. That piece set literary jowls aquiver from Morningside Heights to Greenwich Village, and threw New Yorker staffers into a spate of semi-public wig flippings that are still going on-notably in a bitter rebuttal that Writer Dwight Macdonald is preparing for the biweekly New York Review of Books...
...were the hopes of Socialist Candidate Gaston Defferre, who had boldly tried to forge a federation of the socialist left and Catholic center parties, thus building a potent opposition to the Gaullists out of the splintered factions that still plague French politics (TIME, June 18). After a week of bitter negotiations, representatives of the center and left parties found themselves hopelessly at odds over all the old divisions that rent the Fourth Republic: state aid to schools, nationalization, relations with the Communists (who regularly poll 20% or so of the vote in France). The conferees could not even agree...
Prison chaplains agree that helping restore in prisoners their sense of humanity is a primary task. Most first offenders are crushed by their loss of freedom and self-respect and are bitter about the inequities of the law. "We are dealing with people who feel that there is no justice at all in meting out punishment," says Pastor Currens, chaplain at the Minnesota Women's Reformatory, and he tends to share the feeling. "If you steal an $18 dress, you can get 18 months in jail; but if you cheat for $100,000 on your income...