Word: mend
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...another of the interminable and inconsequential inter-college bull sessions. The NSA is an action group. Moreover, the Council's ersatz NSA will have little or no remedial effect on the real article. The supposition that NSA relies on Harvard support for its prestige and will mend its admittedly mendable ways because of Harvard's withdrawal is a preposterous one. The same technique failed when Soviet Russia walked out of the U.N., and there is no indication that it increases in efficacy on a lower level...
...Gaullist sweep buried the opposition. De Gaulle won even in the virulently Red district of Communist Boss Maurice Thorez. In Louviers, whose mayor is bitterly anti-Gaullist Pierre Mendės-France, 69% of the ballots were marked...
...quiet that had settled over France since May-a mood of let-Charles-do-it -had been broken by the protests of the non-Communist left (led by former Premier Pierre Mendès-France) against giving as much power to the President as De Gaulle proposed. The parliamentary committee itself-led by De Gaulle's old friend, 79-year-old Paul Reynaud, and composed entirely of men who had voted De Gaulle to power-voted against De Gaulle's Article 21, which requires any member of the Assembly to resign if made a Cabinet minister. They also...
President Eisenhower got his first chance last week to mend some of the damage done to U.S.-Latin American relations by the attacks on Vice President Richard Nixon. In a letter to Brazil's President Juscelino Kubitschek, Ike suggested "that our two governments should consult together as soon as possible with a view to approaching other members of the Pan-American community, and starting promptly on measures that would produce throughout the continent a reaffirmation of devotion to Pan-Americanism and better planning in promoting the common interests of our several countries...
...powerful Roman Curia. But when he arrived in April to take up his duties as Proprefect of the Vatican's Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith, he was a stricken man. A blood clot forced the amputation of his right arm (TIME, May 5). On the mend, he was felled by a stroke, later complicated by heart disease. Last week at 70. and at the peak of a brilliant career, Samuel Cardinal Stritch died...