Word: choses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...commenting on the performance of public-opinion polls in the election, TIME (Nov. 21) said: "Only Veteran Elmo Roper, who reported on election eve that Nixon looked to squeeze ahead by two percentage points, chose the wrong winner...
...warned the Europeans-who are certain to vote against him-that the "new" Algeria could not be built without their help and the help of France. But De Gaulle's special appeal was to the army, which could rig next month's election against him if it chose, intimidate Moslems into abstaining or voting no. Addressing the officers of the garrison, he again spoke of the "new" Algeria, which "must be herself, otherwise-and you know this only too well-she will sever all her links with France." He set two tasks for the army: "First...
...fled to Spain last week, asking for political asylum. His friends in Algiers were dismayed. "I can't understand what came over Pierre," moaned one. "His trial was going so well!" Jacques Soustelle, the most dangerous man of all and De Gaulle's most gifted opponent, curiously chose last week to visit the U.S., where he answered newsmen's questions with despairing shrugs...
...tactics of the two ministers have left the mild Mr. Macleod helpless. It was hoped, when Mr. Macmillan chose him to replace Mr. Alan Lennox-Boyd (who was able to deny harshly the no doubt valid Devlin Commission report that found the imprisonment of Dr. Banda quite unnecessary) that some softer glances might be directed toward nationalism in Central Africa. But it is at least clear now that unless some official of very great authority removes Sir Roy and Sir Edgar, the Federation, in Dr. Banda's words, "is dead. All that remains now is to bury...
...show was organized by Poet Andre Breton, 64, who wrote the first surrealist manifesto in 1924 and still presides over a dogged group of followers in Paris. Breton chose the artists to be represented from all over Europe and the U.S. Gentle, 73-year-old Marcel (Nude Descending a Staircase) Duchamp, who 37 years ago gave up painting in favor of chess, helped hang the exhibition at the gallery. The paintings were anywhere from 44 years to a few months old. showing that there is life of a sort in the old movement...