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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...debate when he talked of a new Algeria that would be "neither Moslem state nor an Arab state nor a French province." His idea is to create a highly decentralized Algerian state divided into 25 or so "cantons" on the model of Switzerland. Each would have its own local assembly and local administration. This would allow some, like those around Oran and Algiers, to have European majorities. Over the cantons would be a single legislative assembly of elected representatives from each canton. The Premier of the assembly would automatically become Vice Premier of the French government, assuring Algeria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: On the Swiss Model | 6/18/1956 | See Source »

...circ. 52,000) morning daily, Excelsior, it bloomed too close to home. Thoroughly enraged, Hemingway went to the Warner Bros, unit now filming The Old Man in Cuba, borrowed a tape-recorder man, a cameraman and a pressagent. Soon, Papa was set up in his favorite local bistro, La Terraza Café, on the harbor of Cojimar, a fishing village near Havana. With him sat grizzled Miguel Ramirez, 68, named in the stories as Papa's real Old Man. In colorfully fractured Spanish, Papa drew from Ramirez an admission: "It's all a lie." Next day Havana...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 18, 1956 | 6/18/1956 | See Source »

...other employees get a raise. After nine weeks of negotiations, and less than twelve hours before a deadline beyond which the Met felt it could not go if it was to have adequate financing for the new season, Al Manuti, president of Local 802 of the Musicians' Union, stepped in to referee the dispute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The High Cost of Luxury | 6/18/1956 | See Source »

...figure out why." To find out more about clouds, he went to a meteorological meeting at Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical College and had a long talk with three men from the Kansas City weather bureau. One of these was Donald C. House, supervising forecaster of SELS (Severe Local Storm Warning Center), which tries to decide what clouds are likely to lash the ground with destructive twisters. After the talk, the meteorologists agreed that what tornado forecasting needed most was a man to investigate the clouds' innards and that Pilot Cook...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Tornado Pilot | 6/18/1956 | See Source »

When this corruption from within the local church has been completed, the Communists move into the second phase to damp down the religious zeal so that gradually the Marxian "economic man" will supplant the Christian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Red Book | 6/18/1956 | See Source »

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