Word: minore
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...planners of the 1954 uprising that launched the rebellion, Ouamrane has a reputation for savage ferocity, is currently coordinating military activities on the increasingly important "Sahara front," where last week rebels attacked a party of French oil prospectors and killed 24. "Remember," said one FLN leader, "that even a minor Saharan incident will shake French and foreign-oil interests abroad." Ouamrane's chief of staff is bespectacled Belkacem Krim, 35, a ruthless, fearless former French army NCO who has been sentenced to death four times. Under him are Abdellah ben Tobbal, a 34-year-old ex-miller...
...year's most important business gatherings and gave their forecasts for 1958. As usual, the opinions spread across the full spectrum. But while in past years the great majority saw nothing except boom on boom, this time the prevailing forecast was for a downturn-though a minor one. Of 68 conference members answering a poll on 1958 business, most agreed that business would slip a bit until well into 1958, with an upturn starting late in the year. Only five expected a steady rise throughout the year; only four predicted a continuous decline. Said Leonard Smith, commercial research manager...
...IC4A's Reider finished 17th in a field of 350 runners--a remarkable performance considering both the quantity and the quality of his opposition. He may not be able to do quite so well this year, however, since he has been bothered all season by an assortment of minor illnesses...
Some decline in the level of faculty in accredited schools will have to be accepted. To gain national accreditation, a school must have a certain percentage of M.A.s and Ph.D.s on its faculty. Clearly, there will be a minor raid on teachers with the necessary requirements, probably upon those unacceptable to the great universities. The decline will thus not affect the highest level of American education...
...gold in the remotest hinterlands might be classified as picaresque and episodic, because it depends on external events and travel through the desert to give unity to the human drama which is at the center. Director John Huston creates a marvelously realistic atmosphere. His Mexican lore is superb, every minor detail of dress and speech and technique rings true without the costumed grandiosity that Hollywood usually purveys as local color. He does not give us pale demigods or villains with waxed black mustaches; the three men he presents us with are for the most part fully believable in a believable...