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Word: nationale (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, when the new National Assembly met to consider its rules, the ghost of the Fourth Republic rose against the Fifth. The new Fifth's constitution permits parliamentary votes only on formal votes of censure, on bills or on declarations made by the government. In the guise of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Democracy Is Patience | 6/8/1959 | See Source »

In Britain's East African Uganda Protectorate, African leaders try for independence, but also find things closer at hand to fight against. Three months ago, disgruntled Buganda political leaders formed the Uganda National Movement and declared an economic boycott against non-African bus companies, shops, and products. Picketing gangs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UGANDA: Girlcotting | 6/8/1959 | See Source »

The Reds' national committee met and drafted a soothing statement that "the key approach continues to be defending the revolution." Castro himself said nothing, but the sugar union leaders were obviously doing his bidding. While soft on individual Communists, Castro apparently fears that if the Reds gain a wide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Red Setback | 6/8/1959 | See Source »

Look to Tomorrow. Last week, stirred and cajoled by Sam Shepard for 19 months, the children had a report card to cheer. New tests of Sam Shepard's eighth-graders showed twice as many (14.8%) ready for top-track high school work next fall. At one school, where only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Preparation in St. Louis | 6/8/1959 | See Source »

Police kept dipping and diving last week in Denver, where 10,000 do-se-doers assembled for the eighth annual National Convention of Square Dancers. On two days the cops roped off Denver's 16th Street, and through most of the week the frisky conventioneers roped off all the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPECTACLES: Hip Squares | 6/8/1959 | See Source »

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