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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fanfani prepared to leave for Washington to confer this week with President Eisenhower, Fanfani's ambitious friend Enrico Mattei, boss of Italy's state oil monopoly, E.N.I., gave the subject one kind of thoughtful attention. He hopped over to Morocco to sign an agreement giving him exploration and exploitation rights for the oil in an null tract in the Tarfaya province in western Sahara. The split: 75% of the profits for Morocco, 25% for Italy's E.N.I...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Duty Fulfilled | 8/4/1958 | See Source »

Admiral Larrazábal turned the army down cold. The Cabinet, minus Castro León, hurried down Mount Avila to confer under the protective shadow of navy ships commanded by Larrazábal's brother Carlos. In Caracas, a well-organized mob of 20,000 leftists marched into downtown Plaza Silencio with pistols, lead pipes and machetes to shout curses at the "dirty militarists" and, for good measure, "the Yankee imperialist dogs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VENEZUELA: Showdown for Extremists | 8/4/1958 | See Source »

Labor Pains. After his visit to the Turkish quarter, Hugh Foot, looking tired and taut, flew to London to confer with Harold Macmillan's Conservative Cabinet, but, more important, to plead with the Labor Party (to which his brothers Michael and Dingle belong) not to rock the boat with an all-out attack on the government's plan. At a meeting of Labor M.P.s, red-haired Barbara Castle, a fiery left-winger, made an impassioned plea for the party to stick by its earlier pledge to allow Cypriots to determine their own future, i.e., allow the Greek Cypriot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CYPRUS: In the Box | 7/7/1958 | See Source »

...first outdoor commencement exercises in Radcliffe's history, President Wilbur K. Jordan will today confer 216 bachelor and 152 graduate degrees and 87 certificates of the Harvard-Radcliffe Program in Business Administration...

Author: By Martha E. Miller, | Title: Radcliffe '58 To Graduate Out of Doors | 6/11/1958 | See Source »

...most illustrious of all Frenchmen, to the man who, during the darkest years of our history, was our leader in the reconquest of liberty and who, having secured national unanimity around himself, refused dictatorship in order to establish the Republic . . . I am asking General de Gaulle to confer with the Chief of State and to examine with him what, within the bounds of republican legality, is immediately required for a government of national safety, and what can be done within a reasonable period of time thereafter to achieve a thorough reform of our institutions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WORDS THAT CHANGED THE REPUBLIC | 6/9/1958 | See Source »

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