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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only three days before De Gaulle spoke in Bourges, one of the worst riots since the Algerian war began broke out in Constantine, Algeria's third largest city. Enraged by a rebel attack outside town on two young Europeans and their teenage dates-one girl was kidnaped, the other three youngsters murdered-a mob of settlers surged through Constantine's streets wrecking Moslem shops, beating up such hapless Moslem citizens as fell into their hands, and shouting: "De Gaulle to the gallows!" Next day Moslem youths counterattacked in the streets, wielding knives, razors and steel-tipped clubs against...
...Lombardo, Gisele MacKenzie in a line-up that costs Harrah more than $2,000,000 a year. Harrah's operation must relieve the customers of $60,000 a day-more than $21 million a year-merely to break even. High as those figures sound. Bill Harrah, the largest single private employer in Nevada, beats them with ease. By next year he expects to pay more than $7,000,000 to more than 2,000 employees...
Although using the moon as a radio relay point is not a new technique, the Americans and British expect it to be a convenient way of keeping in touch without interference from ships and other radio users. The British radio telescope, the world's largest, is used for tracking American moon shots and satellites...
Donations to the Program for Harvard College totaled $61,078,424 at the end of April, representing an increase of $3 million over the March 1 amount, President Pusey disclosed yesterday. Adding $1 million to a previous gift. David Rockefeller '36 became the largest individual contributor...
...piercing glance from Spear forces him to stop in the middle of a sentence. Ted Spear looks impatiently at his watch. We were given exactly 49 minutes to become acquainted with the "largest meat business in the world...