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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Thus, as he once put it, France could at least "tear an arm" off an aggressor. He announced also that NATO will not get back the two NATO-committed French divisions that were diverted to Algeria. Explained De Gaulle: "It is absolutely necessary to have our army more closely knit into the nation." ADENAUER, though anxious at almost any price to preserve Franco-German amity, is mistrustful of De Gaulle's nuclear ambitions and resents his carping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Europe's Destiny Is Shaped by Their Debate | 5/25/1962 | See Source »

...hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage." Occasionally, the attempt to link music and words-as in a sudden intrusion of primitive drumbeats for the phrase "To those peoples in the huts and villages"-upsets the continuity. But for the most part, it is tightly knit and moving. Says Composer Danburg: "It is strictly nonpartisan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Kennedy's Cantata | 5/18/1962 | See Source »

...supporters. Six days before the uprising, he said, a member of the staff of recently resigned Premier Michel Debré told him: "Debré thinks exactly as you think and as I think, but he dare not say so." Jouhaud astonishingly described the S.A.O.. not as a close-knit terror group, but as a vast, popular movement with unspecified "social aims." comprising all the Europeans of Algeria and "many more Moslems than one thinks." He conceded there had been excesses, particularly in the indiscriminate slaughter of Moslems, but blamed them on "difficulties" in the chain of command. Maintaining...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The First Warm Day | 4/20/1962 | See Source »

...Vivien Kellems, 65, Connecticut's would-be Joan of Arc whose "voices" seem to ring like Ayn Rand, sold out her 34-year-old cable-grip works in Stonington. But her vendetta against the Internal Revenue Service would go on. Renouncing a 1961 pledge to stick to her "knitting by the fireside" (among other reasons: she can't knit). Liberty Belle Kellems menacingly warned the bureaucratic foe: "I'm just getting a second breath...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Apr. 20, 1962 | 4/20/1962 | See Source »

...back in vogue, suggesting that reactionary elements are freely at work in the pop music field. Prague's favorite tune last week was Come on Grandma, Teach Me the Charleston. Sample lyric: Grandma, leave the pullover alone. There is still plenty of time till Christmas. I'll knit half a yard for you tomorrow, If you come and teach me the Charleston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Czechoslovakia: Gottwald & Grandma | 3/30/1962 | See Source »

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