Word: fourth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...offer a fourth choice-independence-and the absence of this magic word set off predictable outcries among some African politicos. "France," said French West Africa Deputy Hammadoun Dicko, "must recognize our independence and not only our right to independence." After hearing a nationalist pep talk by Ghana's Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah ("Make first for independence, and you will get the rest!"), a meeting of African party leaders in Dahomey called upon France to help her territories form a "United States of Africa." De Gaulle apparently would have the West African territories separate states affiliated with France...
...with an astounding 55.5-sec. final quarter. As 20,000 fans shrieked approval, Elliott finished 12 yds. in front in an unbelievable 3:54.5, far under the 3:58 listed record of Australia's John Landy. Lincoln was second in 3:55.9, Delany third in 3:57.5, Halberg fourth in the same time. Even Thomas, finishing fifth, had a clocking of 3:58.6. Never before had five runners broken four minutes in the same race. Even rivals were awed by Elliott's achievement. Cracked Delany: "I don't know how you could beat the guy unless...
...curious casserole of traditional French, British and U.S. institutions seasoned with just a soupçon of Salazar's Portugal. Implicit in almost every clause of the draft version is a profound determination to clip the wings of the negative and vacillating National Assembly which, under the Fourth Republic, used its untrammeled power to make and smash 25 governments in twelve years. Under the projected Fifth Republic, the Assembly would meet for only 5½ months a year v. the present seven, would be able to overturn a Premier only by means of a censure motion approved...
MONEY-LOSING PABST Brewing Co. (sales: 2.9 million bbl.) will jump from eighth place among U.S. brewers to third or fourth by picking up profitable Blatz Brewing Co. from Schenley Industries, Inc. for $14.5 million and 200,000 shares of Pabst (price: about $10 a share). Schenley also gets warrants to buy 350,000 shares of Pabst for $10 to $12.50 until mid-1966, may thus one day become biggest Pabst shareholder...
Life in Britain, in the vision of Novelist Anthony Powell, is a dense forest of decayed and intertwined family trees. This fourth novel of a series he calls The Music of Time explores the latest area of Powell's private park land to be railed...