Word: generalized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Soustelle's first taste of independent political power did not come until 1955, when ex-Premier Pierre Mendès-France named him Governor General of Algeria. It was a fateful appointment for Soustelle and for France. Soustelle went to Algeria a "liberal," and he vastly annoyed Algeria's European settlers by trying to head off the simmering Moslem revolt with agrarian reform and more government jobs for Moslems. But after August 1955, when a band of Algerian rebels murdered and mutilated scores of French civilians in the mining town of El Alia, Soustelle turned implacably hostile toward...
...whipping up the crowd with shouts of "Vive De Gaulle!" and working behind the scenes to ensure that the insurrection did not grow into more than he intended it to be: a threatening gesture that would frighten France's reluctant party politicians into accepting De Gaulle on the general's own terms...
...four years of bloody strife with the British, Colonel George Grivas was content to let exiled Archbishop Makarios and Greece's Premier Constantine Karamanlis do the political talking. When peace came, the 61-year-old soldier returned to Athens for a hero's welcome, promotion to lieutenant general, a lifetime pension of $300 a month, and a well-earned rest. But it was not long before peace and quiet began to seem to the old soldier to be neglect. The only people who sought him out in his suburban home were Karamanlis' leftist opponents. Since they were...
Raisin in the Sun. Bob Ussery learned to ride back home in Vian, Okla., a little farming town (green beans, cotton, corn) near the Arkansas border. His father was a clerk in the general store, had five children, a pump and an outhouse; his grandfather had a big black mare named Kate. When he was seven and weighed just 55 Ibs., Ussery was clattering across the Oklahoma flatland, perched like a raisin on the bare back of Kate, and celebrating a win over other mounted kids by riding straight into a water hole, Kate...
...Paulo, Brazil last week, under the sleek, concrete shell of the Ibirapuera Park pavilion, 400 delegates and observers of the 18th General Council of the World Presbyterian Alliance waited for the showdown. Even before the first session began, the delegates (representing 76 Reformed and Presbyterian church bodies with more than 45 million members) shifted their interest from theology to a theologian. In the limelight: Czechoslovakia's Dr. Joseph Hromadka, 70, wartime lecturer at Princeton, dean of Prague's Communist-controlled Amos Comenius Theological Faculty, a wheel in the World Council of Churches and a vice president...