Word: maintainence
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Faure's solution was a rewrite of Gilbert Grandval's plan to solve the throne question. He proposed to 1) remove Moulay Arafa-thus pleasing the Nationalists. 2) maintain the ban on Ben Youssef-thus pleasing the French colons. A three-man regency council would take the Sultan's place, and alongside it would be formed a provisional Moroccan government, with representatives of all parties, including the still-outlawed Istiqlal...
...Maltese or Spanish. Its French are mainly Corsicans, who have populated every office building, down to the last post office, bank and tax counter, with fellow islanders, and are demanding that under home rule not only they but their children must be guaranteed government jobs. The Arabs of Tunisia maintain the highest indigenous standard of living in North Africa, with a substantial middle class, a peasantry, and the only real trade-union organization in the Moslem world (which sent a fraternal delegate to last year's C.I.O. convention...
Hundreds of thousands of Americans ride for pleasure. Though Long Island, Maryland, Virginia and Kentucky still maintain hunts, riding even in the East and South is no longer primarily a pink-coated, exclusive affair; it has acquired much of the West's dungaree-clad casualness. The better-heeled riders maintain their own mounts - at $40 to $80 a month for feed and shelter. But most ride horses they do not own. They pay up to $3.50 an hour to canter adventurously over bri dle paths in city parks or $150 a week to rough it in dude ranches from...
...stoutly maintain that they have no plans for big-money shows in a class with CBS's The $64,000 Question. But it was only a few months ago, TVmen were quick to recall, that CBS was denying stoutly that it would try to compete in kind with NBC's loudly publicized Spectaculars. This fall CBS will flood the TV screen with at least ten 90-minute Spectacular-type shows. Coming soon (check your local newspaper for time and station): Fort Knox or Bust...
...high as $15,000 a year. An executive in a big firm may declare a weekly salary of $100-and pay taxes on it. But his salary is only the beginning. He may get another $100 a week cash from a secret "expense" fund which many Japanese companies maintain. At night he rides home in a company-owned car, for his company-owned house he pays a token $5 to $10 monthly rent, his wife buys her clothes on a company charge account, the family food comes from company cafeterias, his son goes to college on a company scholarship...