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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Leader. The political story is that as members of the French Union, the interested tribesmen and traders of Mauritania elect one representative to the French National Assembly in Paris. Ten years ago Mauritania sent to Paris, on the Socialist ticket, an olive-skinned, white-haired Moslem politician named Horma Quid Babana. In last year's general election Quid Babana lost his seat to a hated rival, whose election he tried to invalidate. Failing to secure a patronage job as district tax collector in France, he became violently anti-French and joined the "Cairo" movement. Recently Ould Babana turned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORTH AFRICA: Empire of Sand | 3/18/1957 | See Source »

Yale's number two man, Harvey Sloane, fared little better as he bowed in three games to Cal Place, 15-10, 15-11, and 15-13. Place played his usually strong game, completely mastering the Eli captain-elect...

Author: By Frederick W. Byron jr., | Title: Varsity Squash Team Outscores Yale, 6-3 | 3/4/1957 | See Source »

Erwin N. Griswold, dean of the Law School, was elected president-elect of the Association of American Law Schools at its recent annual meeting in Chicago. The Association elected Philip Mechem '15 president...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Griswold Elected | 3/1/1957 | See Source »

Korea brought new crises, bigger budgets and a truce in the interservice knifing. In December 1952 President-elect Eisenhower and Defense Secretary Designate Charles E. Wilson made their trip to Korea. At Iwo Jima, in Korea, aboard the cruiser Helena (where Ike gathered prospective members of his Cabinet) and at Honolulu, Radford-as the Navy's Commander in Chief, Pacific-expounded his theories on military diplomacy and on the problems of Asia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Man Behind the Power | 2/25/1957 | See Source »

Young Democrats Elect...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Elections | 2/21/1957 | See Source »

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