Word: fifths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Eight months ago Charles de Gaulle, soldier, scholar and writer, was a recluse, regarded by most of the world?when it thought of him at all?as a man whose role in history had ended a dozen years earlier. Today he is Premier and President-elect of France's Fifth Republic and exercises more direct power over his country's affairs than any other democratically chosen leader in the Western world. "His personal prestige," says a British expert on France, "is higher than that of any Frenchman since Napoleon...
...longer risk" experiments in contemporary idioms such as jazz ("I luff der jass"). He has been invited to the U.S. many times, has refused because he was expected to do a whole series of conventional programs ("the Tchaikovsky Pathétique on one concert and Beethoven's Fifth on the next"). Says he: "I do not have to conduct works I don't like. I will not conduct to order...
When they advocated U.S. recognition of Communist China, its admission to the U.N., and closer relations with Communist countries generally, the 500 delegates to the Fifth World Order Study Conference of the National Council of Churches (TIME, Dec. 1) knew they would probably reap a whirlwind. By this week, the breeze of criticism was fairly stiff...
...most spectacular gain of all was scored by P. Lorillard's Kent, up 138% to 36 billion cigarettes, just behind Winston. In the overall brand standings, Kent vaulted from tenth to fifth, removed Liggett & Myers' lagging non-filtered Chesterfield from the top five for the first time since World...
...hold of the galaxies and made them fly away from one another. This is what they are doing still. The most distant ones that can be seen with the 200-in. Palomar Mountain telescope are moving away from the earth at 37,000 miles per second or about one-fifth the speed of light...