Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...party that suffered most of all was the Movement for Reform, a centrist splinter group that was hastily organized as a protest against Gaullism by De Gaulle's onetime Agriculture Minister, Edgar Pisani. It was wiped out on the first ballot. In fact, the only opposition group that made any gains was the small United Socialist Party, which almost doubled its voter strength -to 4% of the total. Even so, the party's chief, former Fourth Republic Premier Pierre Mendès-France, was by no means certain of retaining his Assembly seat in a runoff contest with...
...election victory did not solve De Gaulle's-or France's-problems. In some ways, it created new ones by further alienating the leftists and solidifying De Gaulle's opponents. It increased the pressures on De Gaulle for reform, since many of his new supporters voted for him in the expectation that he would live up to his promises to bring about sweeping changes in France's archaic institutions. Stricken by inflationary wage settlements, France's economy has been seriously weakened; and De Gaulle has been forced to resort to drastic measures to protect...
Whether that ominous prediction comes true depends largely on how well Charles de Gaulle can cope with the dual goals of reviving the economy while undertaking social and political reforms. In a television interview three weeks ago, De Gaulle declared that his reform plan would be a middle way between Communism and Capitalism. He called it "participation." Two of the main features are to give students more say in the universities and to expand the powers of the already established comités d'entreprise-the workers' councils-into areas of managerial responsibility in France's industries...
...resolution almost unanimously. At the same time, the association installed a California gastroenterologist, Dwight Locke Wilbur, as president and elected a Manhattan insurance-company physician, Gerald Dale Dorman, to succeed Dr. Wilbur in 1969. Both men are unusually liberal, in medical terms; their selection holds promise of even broader reform of the once-mossbacked A.M.A...
...cigarettes). As economic boss of occupied West Germany, Erhard courageously exchanged only 6½ Deutsche marks for every 100 of the old marks, thus wiping out the cash savings of most of his countrymen for the second time in a generation.* A laissez-faire economist, Erhard followed currency reform by abolishing price controls and rationing. "The only chance I had," said Erhard, "was that people were telling themselves: 'Our situation is so desperate that this crazy man should have his opportunity.' Miracles don't happen, but miraculous results can be achieved by a determined nation operating under...