Word: call
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With respectability, the FLN leaders have not taken on moderation. Even Host Bourguiba was openly distressed at the FLN's manifesto refusing all negotiations unless France first recognized Algeria's independence. Nor was there any sign that they would call off the savage campaign of terror and murder they have loosed on the rival MNA (a more moderate Algerian nationalist group supported, FLN leaders claim, by the French) in France itself. MNA sympathizers have been gunned down in full daylight on Paris avenues and on Metro platforms. Since the first of the year, 570 Algerians have been murdered...
Mortgage & Fiat. As Labor Minister Lopez Mateos often worked a seven-day week. His. ministry handled 13,382 labor disputes; only 13 developed into strikes. Both labor and management call him a square shooter, approve his candidacy. He also helped write the successful Mexican-U.S. agreement on control of border-jumping "wetbacks," and might well express his admiration for Mexico's northern neighbor were it not that by local tradition such sentiments are political suicide...
...match the standards of the prosperous, industrialized nations of the world, to live the full, good life. The specific objectives varied by nations-large public works, social welfare schemes, high wages, more leisure for workers, local rather than foreign development of national resources -all adding up to what economists call "the revolution of expectations." But expectations outran means; relatively backward economies could not supply the standards of fully developed states. Strained for the means, nations turned to their central banks, forced them into credit expansion by printing money...
Cinemale Marlon Brando, in a New Yorker profile by wispy-banged Author Truman Capote, recalled the late Cinemactor James Dean: "He had an idée fixe about me. Whatever I did he did. He was always trying to get close to me. He used to call up. I'd listen to him talking to the answering service, asking for me, leaving messages. But I never spoke up. I never called him back . . . When I finally met Dean, it was at a party. Where he was throwing himself around, acting the madman ... I took him aside and asked...
Chief Smith said he wasn't trying to protect the Princeton players, but felt it wouldn't be fair to call them in for routine questioning during the most important game of the year. "But if we come up with some definite evidence," he warned, "we won't hesitate to go right out to Palmer Stadium and yank somebody off the field. We' play no favorites down here...