Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...health but no alarm (the Elysée Palace issues no bulletins on the President's fitness). He is a man under strain, a man who deliberately isolates himself, unhesitantly separating himself from his supporters as from his enemies. In foreign affairs he has been determined to demand a greater say for France in Western councils. If often annoyed, Washington (like France) believes that a difficult De Gaulle is preferable to a France with no De Gaulle...
Trujillo, who had already charged at the U.N. that 25 Soviet "guerrilla warfare experts" were training 3,000 men in Pinar del Rio for Castro's Caribbean "subversive activities," reacted quickly. He had his OAS delegate demand a special session of the OAS council to ask for an investigation. Castro snapped back angrily that he would permit no "interference" in his territory...
...between Geneva I and Geneva II (due to resume July 13), the headlines tended to stress the disarray in the Western camp: Britain's impatience for a summit on any terms, Adenauer's quibbles with Britain and quarrels with his own party, De Gaulle's insistent demand for big-power status. But serious headlines, based on the anxieties of the moment, are apt to obscure basic trends that move more slowly-slower trends that justified a more optimistic outlook in July...
...asked by the management of the South Pacific Post (circ. 4,218 twice weekly) if the 50 copies he was getting were enough. "Thank you," he replied politely, "but I sell only ten to people who read the paper and 40 to people who smoke it." So much in demand is the Post for its roll-your-own qualities that back copies sell for 7? a lb., and the paper can claim title as the world's most widely smoked publication. It can also claim a first-class journalistic coup. Few more improbable newspaper locales could be conceived than...
British economists doubt that exports will continue to rise at their current rate, fear that the trade balance may turn around again when raw material prices rise and import demand in Britain picks up as a result of economic expansion. But Britain is clearly out of its balance-of-trade crisis, and the outlook ahead-in the best British tradition-is solid without being spectacular...