Word: known
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reciprocal trade, urged the Administration to take responsibility for watering down its own program (TIME, May 19). When the Administration stood firm, Mills went back to work. The gizmo that finally won the Ways & Means Committee's informal approval was a thing of doubtful value and doubtful parentage, known as the "Martin Amendment" because House Republican Leader Joe Martin had helped persuade President Eisenhower to approve...
...Algiers, for nearly a week, the right-wing press had been working on the emotions of the city's French population by preaching against Pflimlin as an apostle of "abandonment," because he was known to favor negotiations with the rebel Algerian National Liberation Front. Then came the explosive word that Algerians had executed three French prisoners in reprisal for the execution of three rebels in Algiers' jail. Driven by uncontrollable fury, thousands of colons surged into the streets of Algiers shouting "The army to power!" and "Vive De Gaulle!" (see below). They were quieted only when General Massu...
Waiting for Trouble. In similar fashion, the dates of Vice President Nixon's visit to Latin America were well known in advance, and skilled agitators had only to direct a directionless mob to appropriate targets (see THE HEMISPHERE). In France, quite a different set of ambitious men (not Communist at all) anxiously watched the discontent that had long been fermenting in the exasperations of a 20-year recessional of unwon wars, in an army's disgust at political restrictions on all-out colonial defense, in a paratrooper mentality that blamed all military frustrations on the cynical surrenders...
...dislikes, and summon an aide from Paris to receive a typically laconic statement: "For twelve years France, at grips with problems too harsh for the regime of political parties, has pursued a disastrous course . . . Today, in the face of the troubles that again engulf the country, it should be known that I am ready to take over the powers of the republic...
Personality. Eloquent and hardworking, he gets to his office at 8:30 each morning, has been known to make as many as 16 speeches in a single day. Has a rapid walk, fastidiously precise diction, and a temper that can erupt over the slightest clumsiness on the part of a subordinate. Married to the daughter of his former Strasbourg landlady, he eats sparingly, drinks scarcely at all, likes long walks, the opera and Russian novels...