Word: half
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Next in jeopardy was Lebanon, the half-Moslem, half-Christian nation which has been torn for two months by an internal revolt against pro-Western President Camille Chamoun, which is aided and abetted by arms, men and radio encouragement from Nasser. At the beginning of the week, both weary sides were reportedly ready to agree on Army Chief Fuad Shehab as new President. But success of the revolt in Iraq undoubtedly would set the Lebanese rebels against any compromise...
...film And God Created Women, which was also filmed there. For the energetic-those who struggle out of bed before 5 p.m.-there are the long, white beaches, but they are about five miles away. Nobody bothers much to swim or waterski; the beaches are for lolling, in or half out of bikinis. During the day, St. Trop is for the most part a ghost town, much as it was before it was "discovered." At night it blazes into life...
...Moscow), the Communists are not likely to be asked to form the new government even join it. The great majority of Finns remain deeply antiCommunist. "Raw or cooked," runs an old Finnish saying, "the Russian tastes the same." After last week's vote, Helsinki newspapers called for the half-dozen non-Communist parties to form a patriots' regime that will balance the economy and so keep Finland free...
...delegates in East Berlin he got duly booming cheers, and he chose to compare these with the reception "Nixon recently experienced in Latin America." For two hours Khrushchev spoke to his German minions, in the conqueror's native Russian tongue, leaving his remarks to be translated. More than half of his speech was devoted to a heavy attack on Tito, though he insisted plaintively at one point, "We do not pay the Yugoslavs more attention than they are worth. The more attention we pay, the more they believe they really have the strength to play a role, the more...
...mother!), she explained that hers is a split class: two grades in one room. She teaches one class in the morning and assigns 'homework' for the afternoon, when she teaches the other class. If I understand the procedure, some of our children actually attend school for one-half of the day . . . No wonder we often sense a lack of discipline when the children report the day's activities...