Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under the Surface. Although the Constituent Assembly voted 440-to-106 for the new constitution, its last session demonstrated that the unity of the majority was no more than skin deep. The majority hoped to demonstrate its solidarity by greeting the vote with a Vive la France, singing the Marseillaise and decorously adjourning. But a single muttered sentence wrecked that hope, and sent the Assembly into a near riot...
This mess and many another such straw indicated the deep divisions within France. Nevertheless, Premier-President Georges Bidault, burning mad at De Gaulle's opposition, prepared to fight the rift in his own party by stumping the country for the new constitution. If it lost, Bidault's rising star would probably decline, and Charles de Gaulle would again be the dominant figure in France...
...Committee's Culture and Life as a "playful and fanciful trifle . . . sharp and screaming" and hopelessly lacking in "warm, ideological conviction." It was probably, conceded the young composer's critic charitably, the fault of undue influence by expatriate Russian Composer Stravinsky, "an artist without a fatherland or deep ethical principles." But jilted Genius Shostakovich, hard at work on an opera crammed with ideology, declined an offer to conduct in Boston...
...Dutra Government is working hard to mend matters. Last week, experts in London and Sāo Paulo were deep in dicker over modernization plans for half a dozen British-owned railways and tram lines. Transport Minister Edmundo de Macedo Scares, back from. Washington, claimed promise of a $50,000,000 credit for new equipment and highways...
...weather ships will be scattered at 500-mile intervals around the landless region north of the Azores. They will not be anchored (most of the Atlantic is far too deep), but will cruise in 100-mile-wide circles. Their primary duty: to observe weather conditions by all known methods, including "radio sonde" balloons followed upward by radar. They will also give weather reports and radio "fixes" to both ships and airplanes...