Word: nationale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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"The party," said its newspaper, "has done great deeds, but it has also made mistakes owing to the drunkenness of victory and the conceit resulting from its great achievements. It has wrongly assessed its own powers, exaggerated its own importance and given insufficient attention to the roles played by other...
Sarit himself has traveled far from the days when he headed the national lottery, with all the temptations that that involved. "If I make mistakes," he says, "it's because of ignorance rather than ill will." Today the nation's top politicians, including six ex-Premiers, are serving...
Moscow Coup. But the man who held the brightest spotlight was nowhere near Rio last week. He was 7,000 miles away in the person of Janio Quadros, 42, the homespun, popular ex-governor of Sao Paulo state and front-running candidate of the conservative National Democratic Union (U.D.N.). Topping...
Elder Statesman Herbert Hoover, clear-eyed, poker-backed and 85 this week, returned to New York City from San Francisco to celebrate his birthday and catch up on his awesome workload (writing four books, answering scores of letters, being chairman of the Boys Clubs of America). That afternoon he went...
The U.S.'s Explorer VI, shot into orbit from Cape Canaveral last week (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), was the most sophisticated satellite the U.S. has launched. Rigid arms like paddle wheels, whirling through the sunlight of empty space, were its most spectacular feature, designed to test the possibility of capturing...