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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this the young man lost his temper. "You are exceedingly stupid," he snapped. "If you don't know what I mean, well, let us leave it at that and trust to God that nothing happens...
Meanwhile, the French position on Algeria was defended by Guy d'Arvisenet, head of the Research and Documentation Department of the European Coal and Steel Community. Speaking on "What's Ahead for France?", he said that France's loss of Algeria would mean great disadvantages for the Moslems there, who have achieved civil liberties during the French regime. In answer to a question from the floor, d'Arvisenet denied that the French want to make the Algerians into Frenchmen...
...snappy military marches, including the new Liberty March, written during the anti-Perón campaign. Despite the fact that there were no fascinating new weapons on display, most of the crowd stayed to the very end. Said one approving spectator : "Those are free men parading-and they mean to stay that way." When President Aramburu stepped down from the stand and got into his car, a cheering crowd broke through police lines and surrounded him, enthusiastically slowing his progress for several blocks...
...early days at the center," Dr. Kountz recalls, "the death rate was 15% to 20% a year. Nobody-and I mean nobody-was going home from the hospital. It was the old story: 'terminal care.' Now we have cut the death rate in half. Every month, ten to 15 elderly patients are returned to their homes and to industry, or to healthy retirement...
...school class by reading the opening chapters of Genesis to the grand jurors of Bible-belt Rhea County, presided at the trial as Defense Lawyer Clarence Darrow relentlessly badgered Special Prosecuting Attorney William Jennings Bryan with agnostic Biblical quiddities. Baited by Darrow, Raulston snapped: "I hope you do not mean to reflect on the court?" Countered Darrow, gazing absently out of the window: "Well, Your Honor has the right to hope." Scopes was found guilty, and Raulston imposed the fine...