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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Career. Began practicing law in Tunis in 1927, went into politics in 1930 as a fiery nationalist and organized his mass-based Neo-Destour Party through cells in 700 cities and villages. For the next 25 years, eleven of which he spent in jail or confinement, he kept saying: "Tunisia wants evolutionary emancipation, preferably with France's help." He returned triumphantly from exile in France when France granted internal autonomy in 1955, became Premier at independence a year later, assumed the presidency when Tunisia proclaimed itself a republic last July...
...date Salisbury (pop. 190,700), Southern Rhodesia's capital, during a tense congress of the party that ground on for eleven hours, Todd's critics put their case: in the elections scheduled later this year, Todd would be a liability in the battle against the white-supremacy Dominion Party. For 1½ hours Todd spoke in his own defense, and on the first ballot to determine a party leader, Todd topped the poll. The leader of the reactionary faction, Sir Patrick Fletcher, was eliminated from the race. But on the next ballot Todd mustered only 129 votes...
...previous printings (more than 1,500,000 copies), from which profits of $300,000 have been plowed back into maternity research. Going far beyond the skeletal birth, height, weight and teething records of conventional baby books, the volume was designed originally by an obstetrician, has now been revised by eleven medical specialists, includes the memorabilia that mothers love plus space for data that should help the pediatrician and have lasting value to doctors who treat the subject long beyond babyhood...
...rumpus over the Tribune's 32-year-old Negro star arose from an explosive, eleven-part series reporting that funeral bells are in fact tolling for whole communities throughout predominantly agricultural Minnesota. Assigned to look into economic and social conditions in depressed farm towns, Rowan returned from a 90-day tour convinced that scores of communities will have to shift gears or perish. He found that a long-term drop in the state's net farm income (down $97 million since 1949) was aggravated by an agricultural revolution that is eliminating the country town's longtime function...
...next two years Dumas 1) became Garibaldi's director of antiquities, 2) helped excavate Pompeii, 3) founded a Neapolitan newspaper, 4) started one novel, one biography (of Garibaldi), a history of the Neapolitan Bourbons in eleven volumes, countless articles, and a sociological study entitled "The Origin of Brigandage." The admiral gave birth to a baby girl and was put on "half-pay." Said happy papa Dumas: "I don't want to exaggerate, but I really believe that, up and down the world, I have got more than five hundred children...