Word: factionalization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most prominent on the Gaullist side are Premier Georges Pompidou, the National Assembly's tennis-playing President Jacques Chaban-Delmas and ex-Premier Michel Debré. Recently elected as a Deputy from Reunion Island, Debré cannily refused the confining job of faction leader of the Gaullists in order to establish him self as Mr. Fixit for problems throughout the country. Under the spur of Debré's competition, Pompidou is now functioning more like a politician and less like a banker turned statesman. In nationwide broadcasts, he has proved to be a relaxed, avuncular performer...
...Pompidou was like a mistress whom De Gaulle saw with pleasure, but who lost many of his charms when he became la légitime, that is, wife. If De Gaulle gives the expected nod, Michel Debré will take over the job of president of the Gaullist U.N.R. faction in the Assembly and employ his undeniable talents in dealing with the ineffective leadership, poor organization and internal friction that have recently plagued the party...
Failure of the Front. For a time last winter, it seemed as if Argentina might find its way out of the Peronista dilemma short of another fight. In September, after a bloody skirmish, a constitutional-minded faction of the military, headed by General Juan Carlos Ongania, 48, a sensible professional soldier, took power and promised to hold elections in June-even let the Peronistas campaign. The puppet government of President José Maria Guido set out to form a "National Front" that would wed Frondizi's old Intransigent Radical Party (with 18% of the popular vote), the Peronistas (more...
...great divide is not between rich and poor; there are no poor. It is the lingering schism from the great debate of 1942. when family was set against family over whether to hold the annual island croquet tournament in wartime. The "it would be bad taste'' faction finally won out over those who insisted that "the Boys would want the tournament . . . after all what are they fighting...
...Owners. The line that was launched in 1882 by far-seeing Captain William Matson grew rich and lazy over the years as it came to dominate traffic between California and Hawaii. Long after Captain Matson's death in 1917 his successors began to battle. A California-based faction, including the captain's heirs, wanted to continue Matson's diversification into such things as hotels and oil and insurance companies to keep the conservative old line growing with the times. But a controlling faction led by three of Hawaii's "Big Five'' companies* prevailed. They...