Word: mend
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Assembly adjourned with him still in control, he could-and did -boast of a six-month record of achievements that few would have dared predict. For this he could in part thank the man who wasn't there-his old friend and now bitterest rival, ex-Premier Pierre Mendès-France...
...earliest conference dinners, Faure had warned Khrushchev that France could not be split off from the Atlantic alliance. But he made no secret of his ambition to take home some achievement to match Mendès-France's, with whom he anticipates a political battle next year. He was impatient with Quai d'Orsay experts. "I use modern formulas that do not correspond to diplomatic traditions," he said expansively. He added privately: "What do my people in the Jura [his home district] know about NATO? But if I tell them that we can build irrigation canals for their...
...speech, press and assembly. Whether Perón really intends to ease up remains to be seen. But the speech fitted tidily into the policy he has followed steadily since the June 16 bombing revolt: to seem the statesman and play the peacemaker while stalling for time to mend his power. Coming after his opponents had spent a week noisily rejecting his offer of a truce of the week before, charging trickery, his soft retort left them with their fists up and no one to fight...
...Eugene O'Neill; a dramatic role filled by Maureen Stapleton, one of Broadway's more gifted emoters; a new version of Kitty Foyle, that nostalgic, bittersweet tale of the between-wars world; and a dramatization of a true adventure from the life of former French Premier Pierre Mendès-France. But after going through the TV meat grinder, none of these promising offerings was up to expectations...
...Escape of Mendès-France, shown on CBS's Climax (Thurs. 8:30 p.m., E.D.T.), was a dramatization of how the obscure Frenchman who was to become Premier escaped from his French fascist captors during the German occupation in 1940-41. As a true story, it is exciting; as fiction, it is a cliché. The hero is arrested, falsely accused and unjustly condemned to six years in prison, escapes by tying his bed sheets together and climbing down them. The climax of the show was ruined in a large part of the country by a transmission foul...