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In Paris, a stern and outraged De Gaulle moved quickly to contain the insurrection. He dispatched his Minister for Algeria, Louis Joxe, to the big naval base at Mers-el-Kebir with "full powers" to deal with the mutineers, and sent with him a new commander in chief for Algeria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Algeria: The Third Revolt | 4/28/1961 | See Source »

Trailed by two French submarines, discreetly watched by cruising French aircraft, the rusty white 400-tonner with the chipped smokestack never had a chance. As she zigzagged into Algerian waters last week a French destroyer escort hove in sight, ordered her to heave to. Said the French commander, peeping under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ALGERIA: Floating Catch | 10/29/1956 | See Source »

The day was just turning cool in the Rond-Point Mers Sultan when a three-wheeled delivery motorcart pulled up be fore the Café Gonin, crowded with Europeans sipping apéritifs while they waited for the street dancing to begin. Two Moroccan teen-age youths climbed off the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MOROCCO: Death at Caf | 7/25/1955 | See Source »

The most ambitious job that astrono- mers attempt is trying to figure out how the universe was formed. Two hypotheses dominate their debates. The "continuous creation theory" (TIME, Nov. 20, 1950) holds that the universe had no beginning and will have no end. It changes locally somewhat because of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Catastrophic Beginning | 11/9/1953 | See Source »

Of the men returning to Cambridge from the short recess following final exams, all those whose surnames fall between A and B will have to get up before lunch to make the 8:30 to 12 o'clock deadline. The remainder of the alphabet will register from 1 to 4...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Thursday's Arrivals Maintain Peak Enrollment as 4900 Register Today | 2/3/1947 | See Source »

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