Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though right-wingers make the most clamor for De Gaulle, it is significant that his appeal has always cut across party lines (except among the Communists). When France's allies consider what direction France might now take, they would prefer most the continued existence of the present regime, if roused by the common peril it resolved its differences. Otherwise London and Washington would prefer a De Gaulle who took power constitutionally* to 1) a popular front in which the Communists took part or 2) a military rule responding to mob appeal...
Nixon also found poor performance in Latin American diplomacy -what Latinos call "blah-blah" Pan-Americanism. The Presidents' Conference in Panama in 1956, sponsored and attended by President Eisenhower, is scorned as "just a gesture" by U.S. friends such as Galo Plaza. Except for Communist crises -the Red threat to Guatemala -Secretary of State Dulles is virtually inaccessible to hemisphere diplomats for serious discussions. He is criticized for staying at the 1954 Tenth Inter-American Conference in Caracas just long enough to jam through an anti-Communist resolution, and fly home, leaving the question of economic relations, dear...
...oaken doors and painted windows through which no light will enter for the next two weeks, the men of 14 Plympton Street this morning agreed to diminish light all over the University, and thus will not appear in public until Friday, will hide beneath bushels next week except for Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday...
...airport (Shannon) is served by no fewer than twelve airlines, recently succumbed to the temptation of a transatlantic line even though it could only afford to lease three Super Constellations (and crews) from Seaboard & Western. Austria recently flew into the big time with a line prepared to go anywhere except where it is needed. Using four chartered Viscounts, Austrian Airlines will soon be serving such major-and well-served-cities as London, Zurich, Paris, Frankfurt, Rome and Warsaw. Yet the line has no service in Austria itself, which lacks an internal airline and badly needs...
...Crimson, which amassed 341/2 points, Joel Landau was the only outstanding performer. Landau won both the low and high hurdles, in 23.7 and 14.2 seconds respectively, and the latter time would have set a new record except for the high wind which prevented it from being entered in the books...