Word: houre
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Breakfast (mutton chops) was followed by an hour-and-a-half discussion of African problems, in which they agreed-as a communiqué later put it-that there is "cause of grave concern" because the Algerian problem has not been solved. With an effervescent Bourguiba tugging at his arm, Ike went off to view Tunisia's gifts to the President: a delicately boned little Persian-Arabian gelding called Ghali (Precious) and two yearling desert gazelles. The two Presidents then drove to the nearby American cemetery, past crowds of women who hailed Ike with a birdlike warbling that sounded like...
...good part of his nine-hour train trip north to Paris, Ike was closeted with Secretary of State Christian Herter, who had come down from Paris to meet him and brief him on NATO matters. At Paris, about 500 people jostled into the Lyon Station at 10:30 p.m. to watch as Eisenhower and President de Gaulle shook hands. It was a businesslike welcome, with little pomp, and after they chatted for a few moments the two men parted for the night. It was late, and ahead for Ike were three hard days of talks with other Western leaders, brief...
...drab West Side Chicago neighborhood. Ethel Alesia was late cleaning up the dinner dishes. As she moved around her kitchen one night last week, she half-listened for steps on the front porch-her brother had promised faithfully to be home by 10:30, a good half-hour before the 11 p.m. curfew of his prison parole. For an instant she thought she heard the steps. Then, unmistakably, she heard another sound she had also been half-listening for: the harsh roar of shotgun fire. She rushed to the front porch, found two men twitching in a gumbo of blood...
...onetime hospital orderly elected to the presidency of the National Federation of Peasants' Associations. But the farmers thereupon deserted the Peasants Federation. Last week, in defiance of the Federation, the National Democrats led more than 100,000 Iraqi farmers and peasants past the Defense Ministry in a five-hour parade celebrating Kassem's recovery. Obviously much more wary of assassination than before, Kassem kept well away from the crowds as he appeared briefly on a platform to answer cheers. But if he needed reassurance that non-Communist support for him exists in his dispirited country if he invokes...
Bell Telephone Hour (NBC, 8:30-9 p.m.). Thomas Mitchell (host), Lisa Della Casa and Giorgio Tozzi of the Metropolitan Opera, Rosemary Clooney, twelve-year-old Violinist Penny Ambrose appear in a program of Christmas music...