Word: residental
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What had happened? How had Bill Proxmire, resident of Wisconsin for less than a decade, beaten the man who had handily defeated him in two races for governor? An analysis of the campaign and the results gave the answers:
The French government trumpeted a victory, and cited it as evidence for Minister Resident Robert Lacoste's chronic boast that the Algiers revolt is in "its last quarter of an hour." But a more realistic French colonel in Algiers said ruefully. "Every time we get one rebel, we know...
It was, nonetheless, a grudging retreat, and its course was mined with restrictions that not only invited continued criticism from the press but limited the scope and effectiveness of the reporting job that Dulles finally conceded to be necessary, or at least inevitable. No cameramen-for press, newsreel or TV...
The total effect of the U.S. influence has yet to be evaluated. Says one American resident in Tokyo: "They are using us like gunpowder-to blow up the thick walls of old custom." Gunpowder or not, the Western influence, matched by Japan's own singular drive and energy, is...
The attack from the hills took the British by surprise. ("There is supposed to be a gentlemen's agreement in the Persian Gulf area," grumbled one officer, "that nobody fights in the summer-it's too bloody hot.") With the temperature last week at 130°, the Sultan...