Word: reached
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...uprising. In defiance of a direct order, France's air force failed to provide transport to Corsica for 125 of France's "most reliable" cops, the black-helmeted troopers of the Compagnie Républicaine de Sécurité. And when the C.R.S. men finally did reach the island (aboard a chartered Air France plane), their first act was to surrender to a handful of Massu's paratroopers. Cried tough Jules Moch: "I'm not sure of anyone any more...
...blast off for Mars day after tomorrow, but official Soviet space experts have kept their heads in spite of their Sputnik successes. In Magyar Ifjusag, organ of Hungary's Communist Youth League, Leonid I. Sedov, head of the Soviet Interplanetary Communications Commission, says that unmanned Soviet rockets could reach the moon now, but he is more interested in a deliberate development of manned space flight...
WMGM set itself up for the goof at 9:55 a.m. by a thrilling announcement that it was trying to reach General Charles de Gaulle (see FOREIGN NEWS) by telephone for a scoop on the French crisis...
Talks broke down in a bitter mood. "The U.A.W. has made no real effort to reach a fair and sound settlement," said Seaton. "Nothing can be accomplished on the 'give-and-take' basis suggested by Mr. Reuther, which he apparently defines as 'all-give' for us and 'all-take...
Last week the Justice Department filed in the Supreme Court a Texas-sized 425-page brief -the longest federal brief in the court's history. It argued that Texas, Louisiana and the other gulf states reach only three miles out, not three leagues, and dunned the states for some $100 million in oil revenues collected from drillers operating beyond the three-mile limit. The U.S., said the brief, has always fixed its national boundary at three miles offshore and has urged other nations to do likewise. "Manifestly, state boundaries cannot extend beyond the national boundary. By annexing Texas...