Word: labeling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week's end, trooping to the polls for the second, runoff round of National Assembly elections, French voters confirmed this sour tribute to the power of the Gaullist label. Clinging to De Gaulle's coattails, the hastily organized U.N.R. (Union for the New Republic) emerged as France's biggest party (26.5% of the vote), won half again as many Assembly seats (187) as any other party. Counting the conservative Independents (120) and the 67 Deputies from Algeria, more than two-thirds the members of the new Assembly were elected on tickets appealing essentially to a right-wing...
Down Goes Mendes. In the first Sunday's voting, the Gaullist label proved magic. Soustelle won easily...
...more women want is the kind of high-fashion Vogue patterns long sold by Conde Nast. The originals would cost perhaps $600, but-almost any woman can copy them for the cost of a $3 pattern and $50 worth of fine fabric (Vogue patterns even supply a Paris label...
...three voting days of the conclave, with their suspenseful smoke signals, this way: two main groups faced each other, one faction under archconservative Cardinal Ottaviani, the other (including the French cardinals) supporting liberal, reform-minded Cardinal Lercaro of Bologna. In the middle, fitting neither the "political" nor the "pastoral" label completely (since they had ample experience of both kinds), were Roncalli and Patriarch of the Armenians Agagianian. The fact that Agagianian is non-Italian, and too young (63) in the view of some cardinals who would prefer a shorter reign, finally swung the decision to Roncalli. But if anyone expected...
...another reason dictates the wise policy the Coop has chosen. To sell cheap liquor, a co-operative society apparently must put its own label on the goods. The repugnance of being served a hooker of Old Co-operative Rotgut is matched only by the nausea which would be a certain aftermath. Even supposing the Coop could stock a line of palatable intoxicants, one would still object to unfamiliar and untried brands. In opening a Budweiser, one knows what he is getting into. But who dares guess what would go into a Pale Bundy...