Word: oued
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...young contestant from Paris was a chemistry whiz. Hot as a Bunsen burner, Pierre Poitrinal, 17, answered question after question on Radio Luxembourg's Quitte ou Double, the Gallic Double or Nothing that is Europe's most popular French-language radio quiz. When he was through talking of ekasilicon and the halides of uranium a fortnight ago, Pierre had won 2,048,000 francs ($4,876.19) and was still going strong...
...that audiences find a welcome relief from the involuted agonizings of the Juliette Greco school. Several weeks ago she took a leave from the role that made her famous, moved to Paris' Olympia music hall. With such songs as Zon, zon, zon, L'Orphéon, and Ou va-t-on se nicher?, she brought down the house and moved the sprightly critical review Arts to lyrical flights: "She has lovely broad shoulders and fine big arms, well made for singing of love, joy and sadness. We can understand how her body could have inspired painters. She brings...
...Time and again they have come galloping down from the Atlas Mountains to loot and rape. Because the French have not hesitated to use them for "pacifying" rebellious villages, they were always a threat to the Moroccan independence movement. One exception were the Tafilalet Berbers, led by Chief Addi ou Bihi, who sided with exiled Sultan Mohammed ben Youssef. When Ben Youssef was restored to the throne in 1955 to become the first Sultan of Free Morocco, one of his first acts was to appoint Addi ou Bihi Governor of Tafilalet province, a vast domain between the Sahara desert...
Down Arms. In Rabat young (28) Prince Regent Moulay Hassan summoned the Cabinet and called his father Ben Youssef on the phone. Next morning the Moroccan state radio broadcast a royal proclamation declaring that Addi ou Bihi had been fired from the governership and that "anyone who continues to obey him will be considered a traitor to Islam." That did it. Two battalions of the royal Moroccan army, plowing through 150 miles of snow-covered mountain roads, found the old hawk-nosed Berber chieftain camped in the cedar forest with only 200 warriors still standing beside him. "Présentez...
...last throes of a searing election campaign, French politicians hardly noted a significant democratic victory on another front. In spite of fierce opposition from the Communist-run C.G.T., the biggest labor organization in France, the Catholic Christian Trade Union (C.F.T.C.) and the Socialists (Force Ou-vriere) signed a contract with the nationalized coal mines giving graduated pay rises based on productivity, with paid vacations to 250,000 miners. The next day 10,000 aeronautical engineering workers won a similar contract. Both agreements are modeled on the one signed more than three months ago with the nationalized Renault auto plant, France...