Word: fire
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...despite the fact that De Gaulle has sent emissaries to Cairo to sound out the rebels, no serious cease-fire negotiations have taken place. But last week both Tunisian and Moroccan leaders were trying to persuade the rebels to keep quiet during next month's elections, on the understanding that the Moslem Deputies to be elected in Algeria would be regarded by De Gaulle as his intermediaries with the F.L.N. Whether or not the rebels agreed to this scheme, it was a measure of Charles de Gaulle's political accomplishments that, for the first time in four bloody...
...impossible for anybody to read them all," yet when any individual asked what the charge against him was, he was referred to the entire body of evidence. Ordered to produce more specific evidence, the Crown narrowed its case to a simple charge of conspiracy. Last week, under Maisels' fire, the Crown withdrew the indictment entirely...
...Pioneer faltered and began to fall back, scientists at tracking stations tried to fire the Stage Four rocket in the hope it would send the probe into an orbit around the earth. The rocket did not fire. The official theory is that the interior temperature of the Pioneer fell so low (35°F.) that its battery lost power and could not work the firing system. Some experts have suggested a simpler cause: a broken electrical connection...
Intransigence & Righteousness. The college today can look back on some turbulent early days. Oberlin was a way station on the Underground Railway, and once a sizable faculty mob swarmed ten miles to free a runaway slave from a U.S. marshal. Something in the air fed intransigence; fire-breathing Feminist Lucy Stone was a graduate (1847), and later Oberlin's rich soil of righteousness produced the Anti-Saloon League. Present-day manifestations are less obvious: a bluntly worded faculty defense of academic freedom, a tone of ineffable moral superiority in the student newspaper's lectures to the college administration...
...Dulles in press conference last week. "But the Republic of China holds its views, and, after all, it is its territory that is primarily involved." Tacking back to the rhumb-line course of policy in the teeth of the continuing foreign policy storm at home* and the uncertain cease-fire calm in the Formosa Strait, Dulles criticized the "exaggerated" importance the press had put on his comment fortnight before (TIME, Oct. 13) that the Chinese Nationalists were "foolish" to concentrate 100,000 fighting men on the offshore islands. As a military matter, the U.S. will advise some reduction of these...