Word: feds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Charles de Gaulle picked up a phone and called his chief delegate at Evian-les-Bains, white-haired Louis Joxe. Break off the talks, he ordered-at least for the moment. De Gaulle was frankly fed up. Day after day, week after week, Algeria's rebel F.L.N. delegation had rejected every French proposal. There would be no special guarantees for the rights of Algeria's 1,000,000 Europeans after independence, the rebels insisted. Nor would the French be allowed to hang on to the vast Sahara region and its oil; the Sahara must become an integral part...
...Well-Fed Rats. Hoxha revealed that Moscow had tried brutal tactics to force Albania back into line. Last year Albania suffered a near famine. "We had only 15 days' supply of wheat. After a delay of 45 days, the Soviet Union promised us 10,000 tons instead of 50,000 tons-15 days' supply of wheat to be delivered in September and October!" This, declared Hoxha bitterly, was "unbearable pressure. The Soviet rats were able to eat while the Albanian people were dying of hunger...
...Mieczyslaw Stephen Szymczak (whose calling cards explain, "pronounced Simchak"), a change in employers brought no change in function. Appointed by F.D.R. in 1933, Chicagoan Szymczak, 66, served on the Federal Reserve's board of governors for 28 years-a record bound to last, since governors of the Fed are now limited to a single 14-year term. Szymczak resigned to become a consultant to C. J. Devine & Co., dealers in Government securities. At Devine he "will simply explain what is going on in the economy . . . I don't claim to know the answers, but I know the walks...
...after his death, is a voyage into that other area of Yeats's life. Behind the book's orchidaceous rhetoric lies the cult of beauty; behind that lies the mystique of art as religion; but behind everything lies the knowledge that however strange his notions, they somehow fed the glories of his poetry. He did not mind seeming foolish...
...found John Millington Synge dawdling in the cafes of Paris and packed him off to the Aran Islands, conceivably the most significant trip in modern dramatic literature, for out of it came Riders to the Sea and The Playboy of the Western World. Again, if Yeats had not spoon-fed Dublin's infant Abbey Theater with the heady ethnic pabulum of Cathleen ni Houlihan, there would have been neither stage nor actors for the memorable tragi-comedies of Sean O'Casey. And above all, there was the matchless mature poetry of Yeats himself, not popular balladry...