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Informal Charges. With a settlement near, the S.A.O. faces a set of difficult alternatives. An immediate mass uprising might actually work to De Gaulle's advantage by giving him the chance to invoke martial law in Algeria?which he has so far hesitated to do?and thus choke off the rebellion by drafting men into the army, requisitioning property, arresting and interning suspects without formal charges. On the other hand, the uprising could also come too late; Salan cannot possibly hope to prevail against the F.L.N. without at least partial army support, and there are signs that the longer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Algeria: The Not So Secret Army | 1/26/1962 | See Source »

...choke) exams in Arabic, Celtic, and Chinese on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, the CRIMSON will publish on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday only, for the remainder of the term. The Crime prints your prose, poetry, and protesting letters every day again beginning February...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NO CRIME | 1/24/1962 | See Source »

...hepatitis yellow, muddy brown-are faintly repellent. Moreau took as a principle something he called la belle inertie-a kind of suspended animation that seems less dreamlike than dead. Another Moreau doctrine was that of la richesse nècessaire. His big scenes from mythology and the Bible almost choke to death on their own bejeweled detail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Surrealism's Fathers | 1/5/1962 | See Source »

...lithograph plates. Among the charges: > That in exchange for licenses to produce 3M-patented products, 3M demanded of competitors the right to fix prices and production and dictate markets. > That to supplement the patent-licensing tactic, 3M banded together with existing competitors to amass new patents in order to choke off new competition. >That 3M was in the habit of bringing, or threatening to bring, patent-infringement suits against competitors who delayed in knuckling under to demands. >That 3M struck a bargain with New Jersey's Johnson & Johnson not to move into surgical-tape production if Johnson & Johnson would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Public Policy: Nine Counts Against 3M | 12/22/1961 | See Source »

Just in case you happen to wander into the I.A.B. tonight, those big fellas aren't the Boston Celtics, they're the (choke) University of Connecticut basketball team and they're playing Harvard...

Author: By Steven V. Roberts, | Title: Towering UConn Five To Oppose Crimson In I.A.B. Tonight | 12/6/1961 | See Source »

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