Word: gerard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Claude Gerard, a heroine of the resistance who fought alongside Robert Lacoste, now French Minister Resident in Algeria. Last month Reporter Gerard spent ten days with three rebel units in the Berber area and in western Constantine, made a forced march with them. Back in Paris, she wrote her story for the new Socialist weekly Demain, which generally backs Premier Guy Mollet's foreign policy but opposes him on Algeria. Staunchly anticolonialist, the story referred to the rebels throughout as "le Maquis"-a name synonymous in France with the glory of the undercover fight against the Nazis...
...government stayed mum. Then London's weekly Observer interviewed Reporter Gerard for two pro-Algerian columns. Said she: "I felt I was watching the birth of a nation. I love my own country too much to blame them for loving theirs." That touched off a French police raid on her home. They ransacked her files, put her through a daylong interrogation. At one point her interrogator demanded: "Where does liberalism end and treason begin?" Then she was charged with "attack against the external security of the state and the integrity of the territory" and put in jail to await...
...Schumpeter's Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy. "Although the library has many copies of this book, not one is in a reasonably clean condition. He also said that one student had cut out of the "Philosophical Journals" ten articles. Not to be outdone, another cut out every article on Gerard Manley Hopkins in every journal in Widener...
Last week Astronomer Gerard Peter Kuiper (rhymes with piper) of the University of Chicago made another move toward demoting Pluto. Recent observations have proved that its period of rotation on its own axis is more than six days (TIME, Feb. 6). For a planet, says Scientist Kuiper, this is too slow...
...most famous discovery of the late Percival Lowell '76--Planet Pluto--may not be a bona fide planet after all. Dr. Gerard P. Kuiper of the University of Chicago's Yerkes Observatory has declared to the scientific world that Pluto is not a planet, but instead only one of Neptune's satellites...