Word: fourthly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Such was the opinion voiced last night by Daniel Ellsberg '52, Junior Fellow, in his fourth Lowell Lecture on Power Economics. If the United States takes part in a summit conference this summer, Ellsberg maintained, it will be in response to Russian threats "to test our ability to retaliate with less than suicidal punishments...
Along with the Communists, most of the rest of France's long established parties-the Socialists, the Radicals, the Catholic M.R.P.-regained ground. In November's Assembly elections, the power of De Gaulle's name, and disgust with the shortcomings of the old Fourth Republic, had swept the fledgling U.N.R. into office. In local elections, however, Frenchmen are primarily influenced by local issues, familiar faces, and entrenched machines. Accordingly, it was the old hands who did best last week...
...election of the President of the Republic are to be in the hands of electoral colleges largely composed of municipal councilors. Result is that the new Senate to be elected next month is likely to bear considerable resemblance in its party groupings to the Chamber of Deputies of the Fourth Republic. As such, the Senate will be a counterweight to the U.N.R.-dominated Assembly-a development not likely to discomfit De Gaulle, who has never wanted to see France ruled by a single, all-powerful "Gaullist" party...
...both him and his driver. They hung the stripped bodies by the heels from a bridge across the Tigris. From the hotel bar the horrified Americans watched an armored car go by dragging another naked body by the heels. An onlooker rushed to the body, emasculated it. By the fourth day, when government patrols began clearing away the scores of burned-out cars and trucks, a witness counted 45 naked, mutilated bodies hanging from lampposts, bus-stop shelters and bridges. Total estimated dead: at least...
Born. To Ernest Frederick ("Fritz") Hollings, 37, industry-minded Governor of South Carolina, spokesman for the "New South," and Martha Patricia Salley Hollings, 35: their sixth child, fourth son (two sons have died); in Charleston, S.C. Name: Ernest Frederick III. Weight...