Word: nine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Terror & Reprisal. In Algeria terrorism is paying off handsomely. On the one hand, it has prevented moderate Moslems from getting together with the French (near Constantine a fortnight ago police found the trussed cadavers of nine Moslem delegates who had agreed to participate with the French in a municipal-reform program). On the other hand, it has driven Algeria's million Frenchmen to a frenzy of resentment and counterterror. Typical were the riots provoked by the assassination in Algiers of Patrol Sergeant Camille le Prial, which last week brought more than a hundred paratroopers smashing through the casbah...
Courtly, patrician Louis St. Laurent rode a campaign train west from Ottawa last week to seek a sixth consecutive term for the Liberal government he has headed for nine years. When the train reached the hustings on the green-touched prairies, out bounded a lovable character rarely seen since the last election: not the remote Prime Minister but "Uncle Louis," the politician...
Good & "Loverly." Because there are so many eager applicants for the workshop, roles are often double-cast; e.g., at last week's rehearsal there were two Rodolfos (Lindsey Bergen alongside Tenor Surface), and all of the singers double as members of the chorus. In all, nine singers were gathered in the rehearsal studio (each one had brought a score and paid 50? for the studio's weekly rental). "Straight through, and this time it will be very good," said Conductor Allers, and then he pounded out the famous score on a battered concert grand. Sight-reading their roles...
Popular government faces its ultimate test tomorrow. In a last, strenuous effort to "do something for the student, instead of just talking about it," the Student Council nine will take to the field, Larry Johnson '58, chief Councileer, announced yesterday...
Nonetheless, the local nine will almost certainly get its first heavy competition in a G.B.L. that has proved al too easy meat for the veteran Crimson...