Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...they left the F.L.N. to resume normal lives in their villages. Several replied in almost friendly fashion, one saying that he wanted to wait and see what came of De Gaulle's forthcoming meeting with the King of Morocco. That meeting, if it takes place, would imply high-level Moslem approval of recent French progress-civil as well as military-in Algeria. But another replied, symbolizing the many Algerians yet to be won over: "You are not fit to serve as the recipient for the excrement of our liberation army...
Getting Results. Frondizi's plan to force Argentina to live within its means -by removing price subsidies from food, freeing foreign trade, freeing the artificially pegged peso to find its real level-has ended what used to be one of the most comfortable ways of life in the world. With prices rising, beef consumption is down 40%, capital district retail sales 60%, attendance at movies 20%, attendance at soccer games and horse races 25%. Even the rate of marriages has fallen 13% because of higher costs of setting up a household. The need for dollars to buy U.S. capital...
...Designer Richard Stanton-Jones, will weigh 40 tons and carry 80 passengers at 100 m.p.h. Large Hovercraft should need only one-quarter the horsepower required by airplanes of comparable weight, and be able to carry twice the payload. They can start their voyages on land, require only a reasonably level shore...
...wanted on four counts. La Bibbia's fate-Tosini had two years worth of Scripture scripts-was left in doubt. To get the public and the Bible closer together, said Monsignor Enrico Galbiati, Milan's Roman Catholic ecclesiastical censor, it will be necessary to bring the public level up rather than drag the Bible down...
...farmers, they went into the egg business. In addition to encouraging this new competition, the Government farm program has forced egg raisers' feed costs sky-high through propping up the price of most grains. Although egg prices today average 25? a dozen on the farm, back to the level of 1941, Eastern eggmen today pay $4.50 for a 100-lb. sack of mash that cost $2.38 then. "I personally do not believe in Government price supports or production controls.'' says New Jersey State Agriculture Secretary Phillip Alampi. ''but the poultry farmer, particularly in New Jersey...