Word: present
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...where only four months ago a quarter of a million Parisians marched in protest against the death of the Fourth Republic and the return to power of Charles de Gaulle. The occasion: with full pomp and calculated circumstance, De Gaulle has come to the Place de la Republique to present officially to the French people the proposed new constitution that would make him the super-President of the Fifth Republic. The general stands on a crimson dais before a 150-ft. gilded "V" draped in the French Tricolor...
...months. Capable of crunching through 8-ft. ice floes, cruising for a solid year without refueling, it will be able to chart unexplored Arctic shore lines and ocean depths, dump supplies and heavy equipment on islands previously supplied by air alone, serve as a base for weather observations beyond present navigation limits. Said Northern Affairs Minister Alvin Hamilton last week: "No single project could do so much for the north...
...missilemen are unlikely to go to such trouble for some time, though the news last week gave thrust to Bell stock on Wall Street. Trouble is that using liquid fluorine would mean redesigning present ICBM engines, which run well enough on more placid fuels...
...provide it, the governors would help the sale of World Bank bonds on the world's markets. The bank now has capital of $9.4 billion, but bankers feel that its bonds are in demand only up to the $3,175,000,000 limit of U.S. liability under present quotas...
...answer the question, as well as to "prove" his pet thesis that Polynesia was first settled by Indians from South America, Explorer Thor (Kon-Tiki) Heyerdahl in 1955 led an archaeological expedition to Easter Island. The islanders first tried to sell him their present-day wood carvings ("If we put on old rags, we are much better paid," explained one amiably), and promptly hailed him as "Señor Kon-Tiki." They attributed to Heyerdahl an aku-aku, or magical spirit, superior to their...