Word: calm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prison are called éloignés (distant ones). Last week in French Morocco and Tunisia two such distant ones were close at hand. Both were nationalists whom the French had once deported; both were also moderates on whom both Frenchman and Arab must now depend if calm is to be restored in North Africa...
Just one shooting scrape-in which the Egyptians claimed four Israelis killed, the Israelis acknowledged no casualties at all-broke the edgy calm along the Middle East's tensest frontier last week. Yet this skirmish disturbed many Isaelis more than the bloody battles at Gaza and El Auja. What mattered most to them was the site of battle: Elath, a new town which Premier David Ben-Gurion likes to call Israel's own "up-and-coming Los Angeles...
Coach Bob Margarita's calm persistance on fundamentals seems to have paid of, as the freshmen enter New Haven this afternoon heavily favored to best the Bulldogs and pocket the Big Three title...
...talked to visitors about his heart attack. For the first few days, under sedation, he had felt completely spent, not caring what happened next. He had felt his own pulse and found it laboring like a weary steam locomotive: "Chug . . . Chug, Chug, Chug . . . Chuuug." Now the rhythm was calm and strong and regular. That was a good sign, and there were many more...
...matter of days, the whole elaborate contrivance of checks, balances, compromises and precautions which the French had devised in Morocco had collapsed on their heads. Last week, gulping bravely, the government issued a statement that it "welcomed the possibilities which now appear of ensuring for Morocco a calm, orderly evolution of its destiny in permanent cooperation with the renewed framework of France." In Morocco, where Ben Youssef has become in exile a hero he never was in residence, joyous nationalists bought lambs, chickens and goats to fatten up for slaughter when Ben Youssef returns. At week...