Word: granting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Obviously, France is not yet ready to grant the total independence it must eventually give. Because of this initial unwillingness, there is a good chance that any legislation for independence will de designed to keep Algeria so weak that it cannot, with justification, ask for full freedom. The United States must show France that a weak Algeria is worse than no Algeria at all. The only hope for good relations between France and its North African colony is mutual trust and understanding. These can be gained, however, only if France now demonstrates its willingness to award eventual autonomy and also...
Leverett is the second House to sponsor a series of visits by well-known people under the Ford Grant. Adams has announced that several scholars and writers will be in residence this year...
...week's end, boyish Phil Van Rensselaer could not contain his own enchantment. He confided to a Manhattan newshen that he is definitely on Babs's future matrimonial program. In Mexico, sometime in January, said Phil, Babs will become Mrs. Barbara Hutton Mdivani Haugwitz-Reventlow Grant Troubetskoy Rubirosa von Cramm Van Rensselaer...
...heroes are three Navy aces (Gary Grant, Ray Walston, Larry Blyden) who hitch a ride back home for a four-day pass. "I came here to get drunk and chase girls." Grant announces grandly, but pretty soon an s.o.b. of a VIP (Leif Erickson) tries to pull him off the girls and push him on a stage-to make like a hero for war workers. The rest of the story describes how Grant gets even with the fellow by making time with his girl (Suzy Parker), and how in four days the three flyers get so sick of looking...
...that beautiful?" sighs one of the airmen, with the blissful look of a man falling asleep after a hard day's work, as he listens to a radio commercial. "Everybody still selling things to everybody else." And when asked what he is fighting for, Grant blandly quotes the cornball who declared, "I'm fighting for my right to boo the Dodgers." But the moviemakers, well aware that the script is flogging a dead horse, keep their actors busy swinging the bladder like a stageful of burlesque bananas...