Word: nationalizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Madagascar are known, took the general at his word. In Tananarive cannons boomed 123 times to proclaim that Madagascar had become the first French territory to opt for independence within the French community. "We are no longer a colony," cried Prime Minister Philibert Tsiranana. "We are a free nation, and we will have a national anthem and a national flag...
...President, headed what he called a Third Force movement (known to U.S. newsmen, in its ineffective days, as the "Third Farce"). One of Lebanon's most able and respected politicians, Edde ran unsuccessfully for the presidency against General Chehab. When trouble started again, he proposed a "save the nation" Cabinet of four leaders of the embattled factions. To offset Karami's Nasserism, he proposed as deputy premier a fellow Maronite Roman Catholic who wants no part of Arab nationalism. A moderate Moslem was picked as No. 3 man, and Edde himself...
...nation that feels itself menaced on all sides by Arab nations sworn to its destruction, so ugly an episode might have been disregarded or forgotten. But six weeks after the Sinai invasion, Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion publicly confirmed the massacre of Kfar Kassim's villagers "coming home in all innocence" and led Parliament in a solemn expression of contrition. The government paid indemnity to the victims' families ($2,500 to $3,500), brought the killers to court. Last week, after a trial that lasted through 102 sittings and took 5,000 pages of evidence, a special military...
...British Columbia has plenty to celebrate-and much more to look for ward to. Nearly half again as big as Texas, it is bursting with vitality, rippling with Bunyanesque muscles (see color pages). It is the forest province in a forest nation, the greatest fish supplier in a land of fishermen, the source of as much potential hydroelectric power as ten St. Lawrence power projects. British Columbians brag: "We are the right people living in the right place at the right time...
Other surprising performances dotted last week's football landscape, and in the process scrambled the nation's ratings. TIME...