Word: commonness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Civilized Sahara. The nomads of these countries have one chief thing in common with the modern Moroccans: the Moslem religion. It is being used to arouse the Moroccan people to a sense of the imperial grandeur awaiting them outside their back door. Stumping Morocco, Si Allal el Fassi, rabble-rousing leader of the national Istiqlal Party, cries: "Our culture is the culture of the Sahara. Our civilization is the civilization of the Sahara. Our religion is the religion of the Sahara." Then, to excited thousands, he delivers his message: "The battle for the Sahara has begun. We must...
Lawyer Fidel Castro's revolt against the regime of President Fulgencio Batista is the sort of affair that appeals more to young zealots than to common sense. Holed up in eastern Cuba's rugged Sierra Maestra range, Castro has sniped away for three months at overwhelming army forces, and has gradually bolstered his little band of men with young revolutionaries who slipped through the army cordon to join up. Last week the identity of three recent Castro recruits came to light, to pose a touchy problem for the U.S. State Department. They were Americans, teen-age sons...
...stage long trod by waltzing countesses and czardas-dancing gypsies a girl in rundown shoes and a beat-up hat marched to the footlights and belted out a number called Alles aus Naturverstand (meaning "Everything by Common Sense"). Americans in the audience recognized it as Doin' What Comes Natur'lly. Annie Get Your Gun had settled down in Vienna, and its arrival had precipitated another battle in the running musical war between partisans of old-fashioned Viennese operetta and fans of new-style American musical comedy...
RAPID GROWTH in number of stockholders in Standard Oil Co. (N.J.), helped by three-for-one stock split last year, puts company in third place among U.S. companies with high est number of common share owners. Jersey Standard's new roster: 403,000 share owners v. American Telephone & Telegraph's 1,490,000, General Motors...
Interviews will be held today at Adams C-11, 3-4 p.m.; Dunster Small Common Room, J entry, and Senior Common Room, J-24, 4-5:30 p.m.; Eliot House Superintendent's office, I entry, 4-5:30 p.m.; Kirkland Junior Common Room, 4-6 p.m.; Winthrop Senior Common Room, C entry...