Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Left-wing Gaullists and many Socialists also voted yes, but they reject Algerian integration and ask for a negotiated settlement. Nevertheless many of those (like Pierre Mendes-France) who have pressed for such a settlement have insisted on voting no, in order to protest against the coup d' Alger of May 13 and against the spirit of the Constitution, which they consider insufficiently democratic. They remain faithful to the old Republican tradition which associates democracy only with a sovereign Parliament...
...charge: $6 per year for initial card, $3 for other members of the same firm). To bolster its membership, American Express bought out the Gourmet Guest Club (membership: 45,000). Diners' fought back by picking up the Esquire Club (100,000 members). Then American Express scored a real coup: last month it bought the American Hotel Association's Universal Travelcard (160,000 members and 4,500 hotels) that Diners' had long and vainly wooed...
...Group 20 Players wound up their season with Shaw's Pygmalion. This represented a real coup. The professional rights to the play have been frozen since My Fair Lady opened and will remain so as long as the musical runs. Somehow Kilty managed to persuade Shaw's agents to make one exception; those who missed this production will just have to wait years...
...writer, Dorothy sailed to England in 1920, became a reporter when International News Service signed her to cover a Zionist conference in London. For the next eight years, she matched wits with the sharpest scoop hounds in Europe-Gunther, Floyd Gibbons, Walter Duranty. She covered a Polish coup d'etat in evening dress, with the help of $500 lent her by Sigmund Freud. With verve and clarity, she analyzed the mood of Depression-hit Germany. But her best-known bit of punditry was also her worst: in 1932 she produced a book on Adolf Hitler, decided he would never...
...sooner or later, Otto's monologues always turned to the greatest coup of his career-the days of his kingship. Early in 1913, in the confusing days of the Balkan wars, he was traveling through the Balkans with a small circus, doubling as sword swallower and magician. Albania had just proclaimed its independence of the Ottoman Empire. While the great powers sought a European princeling to head the new state, some Albanian Moslems had their heart set on Prince Halim Eddine, a kinsman of the Turkish Sultan...