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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gradual European disarmament would start, synchronized with and dependent upon political progress. The U.S. and U.S.S.R. would limit their forces to 2,500,000 men apiece...
...Assembly, the Algerian and Saharan representation is so large (67 members) that the mushy North African dish couscous has become a standard plat du jour in the Assembly restaurant. Deputies were eager to debate the progress of the costly, unsettled Algerian war. Imperiously, Premier Michel Debre declared that there would be no debate on foreign policy, at least before the Big Four foreign ministers' meeting next week, or on Algeria, and under De Gaulle's Fifth Republic constitution, which Lawyer Debre devised. Premier Debre had his way. Complained ex-Premier Robert Schuman: "I wonder if we Deputies have...
...Teacher's Quality. Gradually, Braithwaite and his class learned mutual respect. The students' "sir"' became less forced, and the teacher's prejudices began to break down as he found a few quick, honest minds among the slum children. Progress was not smooth: Braithwaite was forced to outslug the class troublemaker, a hulking amateur boxer, and habitual bigotry cut through newly learned tolerance when the class refused to take flowers to the house of a Negro boy whose white mother had died. (Tolerance ultimately won, and the entire class showed up for the funeral...
...outsiders to come see for themselves what it is like on the inside. And in Philadelphia, birthplace of U.S. psychiatry and (in 1844) of the American Psychiatric Association, more than 3,000 psychiatrists met for the association's 115th annual meeting to give and hear reports of progress (see below) in the fight against mental illness...
...learned better the world in which we live, we'd all be better individuals"). He had a hand in the Rockefeller brothers' special studies of national security problems and foreign economic policy, is the first chairman of the Republican Party's policy Committee on Program and Progress. Last week Percy opened the first working meeting of his committee to chart the G.O.P.'s future goals. He argues with force that businessmen should not worry, as many do, that participation in politics will hurt their business. Says he: "After six years of it, I have...