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Traitor to Parliament. When the votes were counted, the majority against Faure was 318 to 218-six more than a constitutional majority of the 622-man Chamber. Only ten months before, Mendès had also been defeated by a constitutional majority, and the constitution provides that the Assembly can...
Undergraduates pled while library officials shook their heads and muttered arguments which ranged from poverty to Massachusetts laws for working girls. The extension of Lamont Library hours seemed impossible; inadequate freshman study conditions and over-crowed House libraries seemed a permanent complaint.
Some, the enemies of change in North Africa, were delighted. "The condition of the government is deteriorating satisfactorily," crowed one Deputy. All week long, owlish Edgar Faure maneuvered desperately to keep his government in power. He appealed to Frenchmen's patriotic pride, charging that the North African troubles were...
There were no such glum reflections in the Kremlin. Scarcely had Adenauer disappeared than a swarm of East Germans, headed by Premier Otto Grotewohl, flew in as if on cue In the next few days, the Kremlin resounded with revelry as masters and puppets staged a weird, diplomatic Walpurgisnacht dance...
When Lima announced purchase of the 20 Hunters, a Peruvian Senator crowed: "This will place Peru at the head of all South American countries in jet fighters." Presumably he was talking about quality, not quantity: both Argentina and Brazil are far ahead of Peru in numbers of jet warplanes. The...