Word: nothingness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nothing but Couscous. Confronted by people with medieval habits who refuse to use modern laundries or eat anything but pasty couscous, and who sometimes riot when social workers try to bathe their children, the French army's Sections Administratives Specialises officers have done surprisingly well in some spots with...
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...
Sipping white rum and pure syrup poured over ice, Martinique's mulatto intellectuals last week argued politics in Fort-de-France's breezy cafes, but the politics were French rather than Caribbean. Over breakfasts of cafe creme avec croissants, citizens of Pointe-a-Pitre, commercial center of Guadeloupe...
Boss Jimmy Hoffa, Director Frank Schaffner left little doubt about whom he had in mind. Among other coincidences, the chairman of the Senate committee is gruff and dry-throated (Arkansas' Senator McClellan), the Senate's counsel boyish and shock-haired (Robert Kennedy). The Rank and File had more...
But the U.P.I.'s grief was nothing compared to the tabloid New York Mirror's gaffe. Relying on the advance briefing, the Mirror assumed that the raid had run according to form, made it the banner story (lOO POLICE RAID B'KLYN VICE DENS), and hit the...