Word: poste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...what they had learned, started to read everything he could lay his hands on. In time he became a French colonial treasury clerk in his own country, but his real interests were something else. When the treasury tried to muffle his shrill union talk by sending him to a post outside the country, he quit and became fulltime head of the Guinea branch of France's Confederation Generale du Travail. French officials have vivid memories of the Toure of those days. "He was impossible," says one. "Always making trouble...
...must win our economic freedom and cease being ruled by U.S. ambassadors who have been running our country for 50 years." He went on record as favoring capital punishment throughout "the revolutionary period"-as firing squads cut down 24 more "war criminals" (13 in one day) to bring the post-revolt total...
...news broke, schools began closing. "Mockery and disrespect for Guatemalan schoolchildren," declared a student manifesto. "Besides possessing a normal psychobiological makeup, a candidate for such a post should also have the necessary culture and education." Teachers' groups begged Ydígoras to change his mind...
...More Queens. In the post-World War II heyday, when everything on television was new and attractive, pro wrestling boomed. Desperate for new acts, new gimmicks, promoters began to push such gaudy huskies as "Gorgeous George," a marcelled, peroxide blond who made the sham slaughter seem even more ridiculous by his coy shenanigans in the ring and out. "The queens are passe now," says Columnist Jimmy Cannon, but wrestlers are still getting away with their hammy histrionics, still faking pain, anguish and angry violence with steady success...
Should their report show a new attack of cancer it could mean the imminent retirement of Dulles from the No. 1 post in President Eisenhower's Cabinet. Dulles thought of quitting once before, when he underwent an operation for cancer...