Word: highe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mining town of El Alia, Soustelle turned implacably hostile toward negotiations with the rebel F.L.N., called for all-out military suppression. So congenial did the settlers find his new attitude that when Socialist Premier Guy Mollet yanked Soustelle from his job as Governor General, he was carried shoulder-high through Algiers by French colons in one of the wildest demonstrations in the city's history. Soustelle promised the crowd: "This is not farewell. I will return when Algeria needs...
...Some Moslem employees have even risen to skilled jobs as truckers or members of oil rig crews, but for the bulk of their skilled labor the oil companies are obliged to look to France. To lure and keep the kind of men they need, the companies rely not on high salaries-top wages for an engineer are $700 a month-but on the pioneer spirit, a generous leave policy (up to one week in four in Algiers) and high living standards. Says a Hassi Messaoud executive: "Provided the mail is regular and the food is good, you can get Frenchmen...
...coup, Sarit was Thailand's absentee strongman, with an obedient Premier in office and a contented young King Phumiphon staying regally above politics. But Sarit was spending so much time in Walter Reed Army Hospital in Washington, D.C. because of his liver-the result of a lifetime of high living-that some of the country's tolerated bad habits had become intolerable. To break up the entrenched corruption and to ward off the increasing appeal of Communism, Sarit decided to take on the premiership in person. He liked to think of himself as the Thai Charles de Gaulle...
...Last week the biggest crowds in history were strapping skis together in Buenos Aires and bracing themselves for a clattery two days on the train or six hours on a plane for their share of Christies. In Bolivia, young skiers jammed into the two lodges at the three-mile-high Chacaltaya ski area. But nowhere was the Andes ski boom growing faster than in Chile, as the crowds bundled aboard trains, buses, open trucks and even motor scooters, bound for the ski towns that dot the western Andes for 700 miles. By season's end an estimated...
Brazil's presidential election is still 14 months away but, as in the U.S., candidates are running and interest is high. In Rio de Janeiro last week, Field Marshal Henrique Baptista Duffles Teixeira Lott. 64, the Minister of War and standard bearer for President Juscelino Kubitschek's Social Democrats, hopped on the stump and drew howls from the opposition. Though the old soldier had just arrested a colonel for getting into politics, he himself appeared in uniform and armpit-deep in medals. The opposition wailed again when Kubitschek handed the powerful Ministries of Public Works and Justice-Interior...