Word: idea
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...knew, he had taken only one more calculated step down a long road. In Cairo the F.L.N.'s government in exile, which had been proclaiming its eagerness to talk peace, now betrayed its fear that De Gaulle had the upper hand. Premier Ferhat Abbas bluntly rejected the idea of going to Paris, which would seem like surrender, insisted that negotiations take place in "some neutral country." Yet De Gaulle had placed the F.L.N. rebels in a delicate position. For the first time, Paris had a government not about to topple at any moment, and a new sense of destiny...
When the common market idea first came up, the British saw a surer future in their own Commonwealth and held aloof from any such untried continental combine. But to safeguard their European trade stake, they cooked up a plan for a wider, 17-nation Western European "free trade area" which would include the inner six and would also start in business on Jan. 1. Last week, at a showdown meeting of representatives of the 17 free trade area nations in Paris, the French threw up such a solid wall of resistance that the British feared for their chances of keeping...
...introduced a second bill requiring all government officials, civil or military, to file an inventory of their movable and immovable properties, as well as those of their wives and children. If any should make false statements or refuse to answer, their properties would be confiscated by the government. The idea, he explained, is to "chuck out all corrupt officials." And he promised future bills, probably including a long overdue one for limiting land ownership in Iran and breaking up the vast feudal properties. Why was the Shah doing this to them? demanded the harassed and injured politicians. The Shah...
...last week's vote tally, U.D.N. harvested more than 3,000,000 votes, nearly enough to have won the presidency three years ago. What about 1960? Juracy shrugs off the idea as "premature." His big aim right now is to put an end to Brazil's rigged economy. But there will be no letup in the campaign for votes. "We are returning to the streets and to direct contact with the people. Nobody ever loses trusting the people...
Make a Million (by Norman Barasch and Carroll Moore) is a type of play that, given time, Broadway might well make a million of itself. The formula is a contraption that keeps a farcical, topical, more or less sexy idea whirling, brings on a character every 46 seconds, drops out a gag every 19, makes a hideaway of the men's room and a rumpus room of the office. Aspiring to pandemonium, the authors never fail of noise; left creatively penniless at the second-act curtain, they spend the third act kiting checks...