Word: frenchness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...confusion was understandable. When Massamba-Debat came to power five years ago, he quickly set the former French colony on a course toward what he called "scientific socialism." His National Revolutionary Movement became the sole political party, and the members of its armed youth group, the Jeunesse, ruled the streets of Brazzaville. To guard the palace and to train militiamen, Massamba-Debat imported Cuban advisers. A good deal of economic aid and advice came from China and the Soviet Union, and the President paid a visit to Peking...
...coup was triggered by the arrest of French-trained Captain Marien Ngouabi, a popular paratroop leader whom the President suspected of being in league with the extreme left. Freed quickly by his own troops, Ngouabi-ambitious and opportunist perhaps, but not a Maoist-threw the President out. Then he discovered that he and his fellow officers, divided by tribal jealousies, could not agree on who should take over. The coup makers, hailing from tribes in the north and the west, quickly came to realize that the only man with any control over the powerful Bakongo tribe of the south...
Most important, Frey was beginning to find that in the upper ranks of an increasingly centralized management, corporate life did not have quite the kick he found when he was running the Ford division more or less singlehanded. Something of a Medici of management, Frey reads Russian and French as well as Ward's Automotive Reports, used to revel in running all phases of sales, down to seeing that such personal notions as stereo-tape systems and two-way station wagon doors were included among the "better ideas"-as the slogan calls them-in his cars...
...been designed and flown in wind tunnels around the world. Only a few have gone into production, and none has shown as much promise as the McDonnell Douglas 188, priced at about $4,000,000, on which Eastern Air Lines is pinning its hopes. The plane, developed by the French Breguet works and originally called Breguet 941, was renamed by its U.S. licensee, the St. Louis-based McDonnell Douglas Corp. For the tests, the 188 is being loaded with the latest in electronic gadgets, notably Decca-Omnitrac navigation, which, among other things, can fix the plane's position...
...there have been at least 50 other conflicts of major proportions. In this big handsome book, Author-Photographer Carl Mydans and his wife Shelley, both of whom have distinguished themselves as TIME-LIFE combat correspondents, examine a China torn by civil war, the bloody and futile efforts of the French to hang on to a lost empire in Indo-China, the insurrection in Greece, the partition riots in India. In a litany of violence, they tick off wars and disorders in Palestine, Malaya, the big conflict in Korea, Quemoy-Matsu, Algeria, Hungary, Suez, South Arabia, Cyprus, Colombia, Cuba, Venezuela...