Word: demands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...second anniversary of the dethronement of Sultan Sidi Mohammed ben Youssef as head of some 9,000,000 Moroccan Moslems. On Aug. 20, 1953, the French bundled Ben Youssef aboard a DC-3 and exiled him, ostensibly to "save" him from his own people, actually because he supported their demand for more political freedom. So flimsy a pretext was an insult to North Africa's faithful. Morocco's urgent nationalists flatly refused to accept the weak and wizened old man whom Paris foisted on them in Ben Youssef's place. Ben Youssef, never very popular as Sultan...
...seemed not to mind: they would simply be asked to carry an identity card which the police would not ask them for anyway. Not many of the blacks cared either, for the bulk of them already are numbed from years of carrying cards, passes and permits, which the police demand to see almost daily. But for many of South Africa's 1,000,000 Coloreds, half-caste descendants of the days when Boer settlers took Bantu and Bushman mistresses and wives, Population Registration spells tragedy. Thousands are being reclassified as "natives" (i.e., blacks...
...movies. Frank Sinatra is currently in more demand than any other performer. His portrayal of Private Maggio in From Here to Eternity, which won him an Academy Award last year, burst on the public a new and fiercely burning star. To the amazement of millions, the boudoir johnny with the lotion tones stood revealed as a naturalistic actor of narrow but deep-cutting talents. He played what he is, The Kid from Hoboken, but he played him with rage and tenderness and grace, and he glinted in the barrel of human trash as poetically as an empty...
...Celler pronounced the answer evasive. And evasive answers, he went on, were a subject he knew something about. Turning to a fellow committeeman, Pennsylvania Republican Hugh Scott, Celler told a story. "I remember years ago, Hugh, I got a wire from a very irate constituent who said, 'I demand to know forthwith whether you are for or against the draft,' and I wired back: 'I certainly...
...businesses operated by the U.S. Government. Though patronage-minded members of Congress have tried to thwart the program of getting the Government out of business through legislation requiring the Administration to clear every cutback with committee chairmen (TIME, July 25), President Eisenhower has said that he will ignore the demand, has ordered 14 more federally operated businesses closed down. Among them: four coffee-roasting operations, two paint-manufacturing plants, a rope factory...