Word: hand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...true democracies, the French Republic is, on the one hand, the one that is assailed by the most redoubtable problems and, on the other hand, the one whose governmental institutions are the most fragile . . . Whatever may have been the merit and the patriotism of the men who have succeeded each other in power, the state has continued to disintegrate...
Moment of Revelation. A onetime factory hand born in the slums, Delbecque holds above all to one political tenet: the infallibility of General Charles de Gaulle. In 1946. when De Gaulle first called for constitutional reform, twice-wounded Resistance Fighter Delbecque rushed around northern France inveighing against the constitution of the Fourth Republic. "Actually," he recalled last week, "I had never even read the constitution. I was against it because De Gaulle said...
Because Yugoslavia's Communist Tito was getting out of hand with his insistence on "separate roads to Socialism" (TIME, May 5), Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko last week called in Tito's Moscow ambassador and coldly told him that Russia had decided to "postpone" for five years its entire $285 million program of economic aid (aluminum and hydroelectric plants, fertilizer factories) to Yugoslavia...
...Israeli zone where they had been hit in the first shooting; other Israelis crawling up to rescue them appeared to be pinned down among the rocks and scrub cypress trees by continuing machine gun and rifle fire. At 4 o'clock, with a white truce flag in his hand and a U. N. observer carrying a walkie-talkie behind him, Flint moved to the flat top of Mount Scopus. At 4:50 General von Horn's headquarters received word from Flint: "Evacuation of wounded is about to begin...
Tricked up in his party duds, Tennessee's Senator Estes Kefauver helped raise a few ($3,000) dollars at a Democratic fund-raising party with some hokumy sleight of hand, included in his act a cautious display of rope twirling. Also in the spirit of things was leggy Maurine Neuberger, wife of Oregon's junior Senator Richard Neuberger, who for the party's fashion show slithered out on stage in a figure-hugging one-piece bathing suit, with companion checked beach coat...