Word: call
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...which likes to call itself "the Pompeii of Provence," is rich in Roman ruins and history. Founded by Julius Caesar in 49 B.C., Fréjus helped build the fleet Roman galleys that defeated Antony and Cleopatra in the battle of Actium in 31 B.C. It was at Fréjus that Napoleon made his triumphant return from Egypt in 1799, and it was a key beachhead when the Allies landed on France's southern shore in 1944. The golden CÓte d'Azur begins at Fréjus' beach, and this year the dry summer...
...fasting and contemplation, he coincidentally had a new batch of speeches ready, mixing pleas for devotion with appeals for votes. He stumped hard for his "clean" faction of the Anti-Fascist People's Freedom League, which ruled Burma for eleven years. His chief opponents: party dissidents who call themselves the league's "stable" group, led by 44-year-old "Big Tiger" U Ba Swe, once U Nu's deputy. U Nu traveled up and down assuring voters that in meditating he "became humble and made new resolutions to become a good man." His Cleans would "behave like...
Last May, Mboya called a conference in Lagos, Nigeria, almost next door to Nkrumah, to form the first All-Africa I.C.F.T.U. labor organization. Ghana stalled for months before replying, finally sent word that the idea of a conference was all right, but that it should be held in Accra, "capital of the All-Africa movement." Mboya declined to change the site, tartly pointing out that Nigeria, with a population of 35 million, is the largest African country. Ghana decided to call a trade-union conference of its own at the same time as Mboya...
...biggest carmaker (110,000 units scheduled for 1960), has a capitalization of $34 million, 55% owned by Brazilians, 35% by Willys of U.S., 10% by French investors. Half of its 6,000 Brazilian workers own shares, 95% of the Jeep parts are locally made, and Brazilians proudly call the product o Jipe Brasileiro. Says Founder Hickman Price Jr.: "Willys do Brasil is not an American company; it's Brazilian...
...days. They bought their way out of their contract. It all seemed to have something to do with a case of Scotch in their dressing room. Gary, 26, oldest of the quartet, says he lost his voice, but regained it long enough, during the boys' final set, to call a ringside lady "a drunken bum." Cutting the act very short, the lads fled back to their dressing room, where they bloodied Gary's nose and otherwise clouted him for crabbing the routine. After the bout, Gary rested briefly, then plodded to a nearby bar, expressing a simple sentiment...