Word: half
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Halfway House. The British, who like to be half in and half out of Europe, of late have become increasingly disturbed about the six-nation Common Market, the economic bloc of 160 million customers which France. Germany, Italy and Benelux will launch on New Year's Day. From the start, the British refused to join the Common Market on the ground that they could not abandon their present intricate system of Commonwealth tariff preferences. At the same time, British industry dreaded the prospect of finding its products excluded from the Common Market. As a halfway house, Harold Macmillan...
...second, runoff round of National Assembly elections, French voters confirmed this sour tribute to the power of the Gaullist label. Clinging to De Gaulle's coattails, the hastily organized U.N.R. (Union for the New Republic) emerged as France's biggest party (26.5% of the vote), won half again as many Assembly seats (187) as any other party. Counting the conservative Independents (120) and the 67 Deputies from Algeria, more than two-thirds the members of the new Assembly were elected on tickets appealing essentially to a right-wing nationalism...
...President Tito must take a poke from time to time at his old pals in the Soviet bloc. These attacks do not change things in the East, where Tito is in bad odor; but they do land him on front pages in the West, where he is considered only half safe. And they enhance his prestige among the neutralists as a Very Important Person who is still eagerly wooed by both East and West...
Among the real heroes of the weekend bender were half-a-hundred puppets, Poet Ogden Nash, Conductor Leonard Bernstein (also responsible for the Wonderful Town score) and Ludwig van Beethoven...
...Choral Voice. While their words spread out across their world, John, 59, and Mike Cowles, 55, hold two or three half-hour phone calls a week, brief each other on their sessions with distinguished friends. They seldom need to coordinate editorial viewpoints. John may be closer to the famous-Nehru, Eden, Eisenhower -and Mike may lead a more spectacular private life: his present wife is his fourth; his third was tempestuous Fleur Cowles, editor of the avant-gaudy monthly Flair, which failed after twelve issues in 1951. But with identical backgrounds (Exeter, Harvard, Des Moines city rooms), the two brothers...