Word: choses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Both the book and the film version of The Shop on Main Street were flops in Czechoslovakia, undoubtedly because of the guilty consciences of the people depicted. They chose to ignore the book and to walk out of the movie in mid-performance. Only the success of the film in the U.S. has changed this lethargy into a willingness at least to accept the honors...
Embroiled as he was with the trade unions, dissidents in his own party and the Opposition over his controversial plans to rescue the pound, Wilson deliberately chose to make things hotter by scheduling a debate on Labor's controversial bill to renationalize Britain's major privately owned steel companies. He apparently reckoned that the steel-nationalization issue-one of the Labor Party's surviving oldtime doctrinaire goals-would unite his divided party. But Veteran Labor M.P. George Strauss, who in 1948 piloted the Labor Government's original steel-nationalization bill through Commons, was critical...
...with what the Rev. Eugene Smith, executive secretary in the U.S. for the World Council of Churches, calls "the Holy Spirit at work in the world," has led to a spate of discussion. In 1964 the meeting of the World Alliance of Reformed and Presbyterian Churches in Frankfurt, Germany, chose as its theme "Come Creator Spirit." Last June the first national ecumenical meeting of Methodists and Roman Catholics in Chicago had the same focus. Smith believes that the "issue will really blow open" at the next meeting of the World Council of Churches, to be held in 1968, which...
...makings of a topflight corporation officer-and universities likewise know that a learned business leader may be just the man to head up a college. Fifteen years ago, when the New York Stock Exchange was searching for a new face to give some depth to its public image, it chose as president George Keith Funston, then head of Trinity College. Last week the pendulum swung the other way when Connecticut's Wesleyan University announced that its new president will be Edwin Deacon Etherington, 41, president of the American Stock Exchange...
...remote Sahara has been the test site for France's fledgling atomic program. With the agreement under which France uses the site about to run out and Africans, in general, resentful of the French tests, Charles de Gaulle had to find another place to blast. The one he chose is about as far from population centers as possible. It is Mururoa atoll, 750 miles southeast of Tahiti in the South Pacific...