Word: old
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Old Gambit. The men responsible for the big stumble did not suffer. Mao Tse-tung retained the all-powerful chairmanship of the Communist Party, and, though he did step down as chief of state, he was replaced by Organization Man Liu. But there were scapegoats. Three weeks ago, 200 middle-echelon planners and administrators, who were guilty of accurately predicting the failure of the big leap, were dismissed from their posts...
...along with the shakeup in the civilian hierarchy went one in the army. Liu's old opponent, Marshal Peng Teh-huai, was dismissed as Defense Minister, as were two of his top aides, because they had protested the use of troops in labor battalions. Into the chief of staff's post went General Lo Jui-ching (TIME cover, March 5, 1956), bloody-minded former boss of the secret police, who could be depended upon to ferret out any more "incorrect thinking" among the military...
...next diplomatic round. Silent hauteur was Paris' first response to the counterproposals with which Abbas and his "Cabinet" had met De Gaulle's offer of Algerian self-determination (TIME, Sept. 28). The rebels were still insisting that if France wanted a cease-fire in the five-year-old Algerian civil war, it must deal directly with their "provisional government." but this De Gaulle had barred from the beginning. Equally unacceptable to Paris was Abbas' scorn for De Gaulle's hint that Algeria might be partitioned to protect the right of French settlers and the rebel leader...
When a teller balked. Hume shot and critically wounded him. Scooping up a meager $45, he ran out into the street just as the assistant teller rang the alarm. He killed a taxi driver who tried to stop him, was finally brought down by a 24-year-old pastry cook after his pistol jammed...
...Italy's proud carabinieri, he had been released from a mental hospital during World War II to fight in the Italian army. After the war, the Defense Ministry gave him a job chopping wood and raking leaves in his native Sardinia. Last year, still suffering from his old mental illness, Lepori decided to retire-only to discover that he had not been on the ministry's permanent rolls and, after 15 years as a "temporary laborer," was not entitled to a pension. He argued his case tnrough the ministry right up to De Virgilio, who had no recourse...