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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...defects as well as the achievements of the new regime. L'Action supported the stoutly pro-Western Bourguiba in his opposition to Nasser. But as time went on, it began to criticize the long delay in providing a new constitution, urged new elections to replace the present Constituent Assembly, which is composed only of members approved by Bourguiba's own ironically named Neo-Destour (New Constitution) Party...
French Ceiling. At the height of auction's popularity in the midigsos, the keen card mind of famed Yachtsman Harold S. Vanderbilt focused on the game's essential defect in comparison with present-day bridge: overtricks in excess of the bid counted toward game, just like bid tricks, so that a partnership could make a game without bidding it. Card Buff Vanderbilt found in the French variety of auction called plafond (ceiling) an innovation that he liked: only tricks bid and made were scored toward game, over tricks counting as above-the-line bonuses...
...analysts are willing to "argue with the tape." i.e., what the market has done in the face of falling profits. As the market has picked up steam, more and more of them have become bullish. Only a minority last winter foresaw the rise. Some of that minority's present opinions...
Winans said yesterday that he would present a written request to Leland this morning asking permission for him to address the Council tonight. He added that he would propose that the Council put up half of the funds necessary for membership with the proponents of the N.S.A. raising the remainder...
However, Arthur D. Trottenberg '48, Manager of Operating Services, said the new dormitory forecast "no change in policy." The University has no plans at present for any more dormitories for women graduate students, he said...