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Word: etatism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that animals die facing Mecca, but they have learned that it is an unpardonable sin to install a toilet facing in that direction. Moslem hospitals must be designed so that men and women can be strictly separated at all times. Projects are often delayed by revolutions, coups d'etat, bureaucracy and corruption. In Africa, the architects have had to abandon some carefully selected building sites at the last minute. Reason: local witch doctors considered them "bad juju...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Africa: Architects for the Developing | 2/12/1965 | See Source »

...most famed case in France reached the courts fortnight ago. Last March, Judge André Heilbronner, a member of the Conseil d'Etat, which is roughly equivalent to the U.S. Supreme Court, was dragged from his Citroën by Electrician Jean Le Bihan and beaten unmercifully. Le Bihan's wife joined in with the high heel of one of her shoes. When arrested, Le Bihan claimed that the judge's car had cut him off. In an effort to impress Frenchmen with the need to end such violence, Le Bihan was given ten months in jail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France: Honk! Biff! Bam! | 1/22/1965 | See Source »

...forbid the movement of traffic in or out of the city. Without a fight, the rebels occupied communication centers in the capital, burst into the office of Premier Nguyen Khanh, and arrested several duty officers but found no trace of the Premier. It was the coup d'etat that many had dreaded but hoped would not happen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Viet Nam: Continued Progress | 9/18/1964 | See Source »

Conquest by Coup d'Etat. It was not mere vanity that motivated De Gaulle. His obstinacy had a political purpose. The Communists, Aron convincingly shows in this superlative account of the Liberation, were about to seize power in many parts of France. They made up a great part of the Resistance, and no one could fault them for their courage during the Occupation. De Gaulle realized that only by appearing as an utterly uncompromising, incorruptible leader could he win the confidence of Frenchmen and stave off a Communist takeover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Vanity Vindicated | 7/31/1964 | See Source »

...Bayeux. He promptly took over and installed his faithful deputy Francois Coulet as administrative head of the region. Coulet promptly fired the incumbent Vichyite subprefect, whom the British had instructed to stay on the job, and replaced him with a Resistance fighter. It was a simple coup d'etat: when the infuriated British came to protest, Coulet banged his fist "on his new desk, shouting: "My presence here has nothing to do with you. I'm here on De Gaulle's orders." The British retreated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Vanity Vindicated | 7/31/1964 | See Source »

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