Word: premiere
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stood 20th in a class of 156, is a competent pianist, a good swimmer and basketball player. Popular with her French classmates because she had "such a lot of heart and sensitivity," Farah comes from a well-to-do Iranian family and is distantly related to weepy ex-Premier Mohammed Mossadegh, who briefly dethroned the Shah in 1953. Her father, an army officer trained at St. Cyr, the West Point of France, died ten years ago of tuberculosis; her mother Farida is a handsome and Westernized woman, who wears Givenchy clothes and belongs to a progressive women's club...
...Gaulle evidently is calling the turn on timing. He also apparently is going to get his way about putting off until sometime next spring a subsequent East-West summit conference with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev...
Muffled by censorship and tight military control, the noises coming out of Iraq last week nonetheless sounded like the laborings of an untended boiler approaching the point of explosion. Iraq's newspapers triumphantly reported the capture of some of the men who had almost succeeded in killing Premier Abdul Karim Kassem (TIME, Oct. 19)-but gave no names. Scarcely had these good tidings been announced when Radio Baghdad trumpeted that another assassination plot had been uncovered-but gave no details...
...braggart overlords admitted that the economic achievements of 1958's Great Leap Forward had been vastly inflated, and revised their 1959 production goals downward. But the price of truth proved too painful. Fortnight ago, during the celebration of the tenth anniversary of the Red takeover in China, Premier Chou En-lai complained: "The imperialists ridicule our adjusted 1959 plan as a 'big leap backward' . . . Obviously, it is a continued great leap forward on the basis of the exceptionally big leap forward [the year before]." Last week, quick to take a hint, Peking's trained-seal statisticians...
...exports more attractive and imports more expensive, but would cut the standard of living. Second choice is some form of economic integration with the U.S. That would probably involve the reciprocal reduction or elimination of duties (a reciprocity treaty was approved by Congress in 1911, but the government of Premier Sir Wilfrid Laurier went to the Canadian electorate asking support and was defeated). But that would erode Canada's economic sovereignty, which many Canadians consider already sufficiently imperiled...