Word: colossi
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...inspected two key nuclear plants, Pierrelatte (which is reportedly several months behind target) and Cadarache. On his 20th provincial tour, he treated audiences to some of the most chauvinistic speeches they have yet heard from De Gaulle. He emphasized repeatedly that France "will remain detached" from the "two great colossi," Russia...
...Grass. This was heartening news for the world's neutrals who, in the words of a Burmese diplomat, have sometimes felt like "the tender grass between the feet of two savage buffaloes locked in mortal combat." At this U.N. session the neutralist nations have thrown themselves between the colossi of East and West in the prayerful hope of ending the cold war. Feelings of alarm swept the uncommitted countries at the table thumpings and rocket rattlings of Nikita Khrushchev. They were dismayed by the parliamentary maneuvering of the U.S., which saw no advantage to "renewed" talks between Eisenhower...
...three millenniums, may soon be drowned by the backed-up waters of the Nile, and its sandstone glories dissolved to nothingness. With it will die the four 65-ft. guardian statues of Ramses II, who built the temple in his honor around 1250 B.C. On one of these seated colossi appears what may be the first "Kilroy was here" message in military history. About 600 B.C., two Greek mercenaries serving in the Egyptian army arrived at the temple and scratched on Ramses' leg an account of their travels upriver as "companions of Psammetichus." Like any other G.I.s, they signed...
There were good technical arguments for joining EURATOM: 1) France will run out of coal reserves in about 30 years, 2) France has neither the technical nor financial resources to run an atomic-energy program of its own. To this Mollet added another argument: "Confronted by the atomic colossi of Russia and the U.S., no isolated European country can make its voice heard. It is necessary to weave between the countries of Western Europe the bonds that will prevent Germany from turning to the East." Because nobody wanted to kick out Guy Mollet and inherit the mess in Algeria, Mollet...
Glowering Colossi...