Word: metropolitan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Raymond Vernon, professor of International Trade and Investment, is currently directing the nation's first comprehensive study of a metropolitan area in 30 years...
...ideal mediator, but can be little more than a tool of the F.L.N., because the armed Algerians in F.L.N. camps in Tunisia happen to outnumber the entire Tunisian army. Conversely, the French Army, though it is good for little else, is admirably equipped for the intimidation and control of metropolitan France...
...case across on the one side to the F.L.N. rebels and on the other to the Army and the colons of Algiers. The F.L.N. is irrevocably dedicated to complete independence and has carried on a campaign of extermination against its moderate Moslem enemies both in Algeria and in metropolitan France. Soldiers like Massu and extremists like Delbecque are reluctant to give up without a victory a war they have waged for more than five years, and, although he has "betrayed" them now, de Gaulle is in this element's debt for putting him in power last...
...first season of varsity status since 1915, Columbia posted a 1-6-2 record. Earlier in the present campaign, the Lions bowed to C.C.N.Y., the best team in the New York area, 5 to 2, and lost to Pratt, perennially in the middle of the Metropolitan League standings, by a 3-1 margin...
...novel experiment involving 140 University volunteers, the Metropolitan State Hospital, and $87,000 from the National Institute of Mental Health started last week at Phillips Brooks House...