Word: choses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Participants in the contest delivered a five to seven minute selection from a literary work. Pell's selection came from Erwin D. Canham's "The Authentic Revolution," and Lowe chose the speech of the Devil from Man and Superman, by George Bernard Shaw...
...such items as watches and woolens. But the wind recently began to shift: the new chief at the office of Civil and Defense Mobilization, Leo Hoegh, tossed out a bid by English Electric Co. Ltd. to build two hydraulic-electric turbines for the Greers Ferry Dam in Arkansas, instead chose a 21% higher bid from Philadelphia's Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton Corp., thus giving some political help to Republican Congressman Hugh Scott (TIME, Feb. 2). Last week the coalmen demanded still tougher controls on imports of residual fuel oils, arguing "national defense." Lobbyists for cobalt, fluorspar, tungsten (which are already...
...Russians chose to express their displeasure with Conservative Premier Karl Fagerholm by withdrawing their ambassador from Helsinki and cutting off both loans and trade. Fagerholm's government quickly fell, and the Agrarian Party took over. Two weeks later, Finnnish President Kekkonen went to Leningrad for a conference with Khrushchev...
...very evening in 1956 when France's Premier Guy Mollet signed a communique hailing Franco-Soviet friendship, Khrushchev, at a Kremlin reception, toasted Algerian independence. But never before had the Russians exposed an eminent Western statesman to quite such open boorishness. With calculated contempt, Khrushchev chose to confide to his campaign audience several pertinent ideas-such as a proposal for an Anglo-Soviet nonaggression treaty -that he had not bothered to mention to Macmillan during more than 20 hours of supposedly intimate and frank discussion. The Cold War. From the moment Macmillan learned of Khrushchev's speech, relations...
...Ballets Africains is the creation of Keita Fodeba, a 37-year-old lawyer who became Guinea's Minister of the Interior when that country chose independence last fall in Charles de Gaulle's referendum. As a law student in Paris in 1949, Fodeba led two other Guinean students, Artistic Director Kante Facelli, 35, and Administrator Achkar Marof, 28, in singing African songs over the French radio. What they sang went over so well that Fodeba assembled a successful dance group recruited from fellow Africans in Paris. Then the trio took off on a "25,000-mile" talent hunt...