Word: ever
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Striding one afternoon last week into the gilded Salle des Fêtes of the Elysée Palace, Charles de Gaulle took a seat in solitary grandeur upon an orchestra platform, signaled the beginning of the first press conference ever given by a French President. In the hour that followed, the 600 newsmen present witnessed the closest thing to a royal audience that France has seen since the days of Napoleon III. While the Cabinet of the Fifth Republic sat in dutiful silence at the foot of his dais, De Gaulle announced that he himself would speak for France...
...exists, and that France endorses West Germany's drive for reunification of today's two Germanys. But then he added carefully, "provided they do not reopen the question of their present frontiers to the west, the east, the north and the south." These were the strongest words ever used by a Western leader in favor of setting Germany's eastern boundary at the Oder-Neisse...
Often invited to visit the U.S. earlier, Lott replied that "conditions did not permit." He referred to a group of troublesome Brazilian militarists who have obeyed him only grudgingly ever since 1955, when he called out troops loyal to him in a "preventive coup," forestalling a plot by some other officers and ensuring the inauguration of President Juscelino Kubitschek. For the past four years Lott has disciplined the hotheads gently (usually with house arrest), built a fiercely loyal cadre of junior officers by promoting them up from the ranks...
...Ever since "quiz" became television's own four-letter word, networks have sought the fix-free format-a jackpot show that could convince audiences of its incorruptibility. The trick lay in finding contestants whose honesty could not be doubted. CBS decided to try the nation's scrub-faced youth, began a sprightly Sunday half-hour intellectual basketball game called College Bowl...
...jaunt with Grandmother through an exotic bazaar in Beersheba, Israel, pert, 16-year-old Nina Roosevelt* spied the cutest souvenir ever, begged Grandma to bargain for it with the canny Bedouins. Obligingly, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt shelled out $77 for a scrawny baby camel (named "Duchess" by Nina), which, if Daddy approves, will stalk the Roosevelts' Hyde Park estate until it gets big enough to deserve permanent residence in any interested...