Word: mend
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After years of tension and months of negotiations with Tunisia's determined Nationalists, the French government of Premier Edgar Faure last week made good the promise given to one of its restless protectorates a year ago by his predecessor, Pierre Mendès-France. At the end of three days' debating-joined in for the first time since he left office by Assemblyman Mendès-France himself-France's National Assembly overwhelmingly approved the government proposal to grant Tunisia internal self-government in gradual stages over the next 20 years. Even the Communists did an unexpected...
Climax (Thurs. 8:30 p.m., CBS). The Escape of Mendès-France, a dramatization of true-life adventure of the former French Premier, starring Louis Jourdan...
Still on the mend after a heart attack that laid him low in Cairo last February, the Ago Khan, 77, looking surprisingly chipper, enjoyed a sunny outing at Paris' Longchamp race track with his handsome French-born wife, the Begum...
...wealthy Rothschilds, Mayer served with De Gaulle in North Africa during World War II. Later, as chief spokesman for the hard-shelled North African colons, it was he who delivered the crucial, brutal Assembly speech which brought down his fellow Radical Socialist and arch-political foe, Premier Pierre Mendès-France (TIME, Feb. 14). He is a sufficiently good European to satisfy the Catholic M.R.P. members of Faure's coalition Cabinet, but he tempers his enthusiasm with enough pragmatic caution to satisfy even the Gaullists...
...manager who collaborated with the IBC in giving Vince Martinez a rough deal. Last week Helfand suspended his hearings and sailed for Europe. From Jacobs Beach to The Bronx, he left behind a mob of worried wise guys, convinced that this boxing commissioner meant business. They would have to mend their ways - at least for a while - or hang up their gloves. But there was no hope for any real change. By the nature of things, professional boxing was still the racket in which it is necessary to be a little stupid - and more than a little forgetful, especially...