Word: localism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...France's Minister Resident in Algeria, had known in advance of the decision to attack Sakiet-Sidi-Youssef. Neither, apparently, had General Raoul Salan, the luckless Indo-China veteran who commands French forces in Algeria. The murderous blow that earned France worldwide obloquy had been ordered by a local air force officer, reportedly a colonel, on the strength of an imprecise government directive authorizing retaliatory attack on Algerian rebel concentrations in the immediate frontier areas bordering on Tunisia...
...House of Lords deserves applause for opening its club to women. By their enlightened vote the peers have followed the recent example set by the CRIMSON and other more local organizations...
...would be unfortunate if people were to conclude that these students are uneducable. It is no solution of the problem at all to drop the compulsory age to 14." Hunt suggests that a type of work-study program might alleviate the situation. If the school officials could cooperate with local industry, education combined with on-the-job training might encourage a student's desire for education as well as providing him with useful vocational training...
...23rd CRIMSON score came as somewhat of an insult to WHRB, as the local newsmen inserted their cheerleader-manager from the Radcliffe Bureau to toss in a free throw...
There is much that can be done to relieve the plight of the unemployed, yet the President has assumed that conditions will work themselves out in time. On a more positive level, state and local governments are fast using up their relief funds, and for many workers, unemployment benefits, which are generally paid only for a 26-week period, are fast being exhausted...