Word: revolted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...made. "Would the right honorable gentleman accept the logical consequences of abandoning the tests, which means abandoning the weapon?" asked Macmillan. Gaitskell retreated. Finally he replied: ''The Prime Minister is perfectly right. Our party decided to support the manufacture of the H-bomb here." Thereupon a noisy revolt broke out in the Labor Party...
...politically and economically-by the U.S.? Yes, argues one of France's top playwrights and novelists, Marcel Ayme. "Soon it will be ten years since France was sold to the U.S.," he recently wrote, "and since we became the Algeria of the Americans-an Algeria which does not revolt...
...three weeks, while his revolt-torn country rocked along with no government other than himself. Indonesia's President Sukarno sat back and bided his time. His own choice, a hapless politician named Suwirjo, tried in vain to form a new government, but gave up, muttering: "Thank God it's over...
Last week a new Argentine ambassador, Carlos Toranzo Montero, was settling down in Caracas. A soldier-diplomat, Toranzo was an army leader of the 1955 anti-Perón revolt, spent two years and seven months in a Perón jail for refusing to wear a black mourning band after Evita Perón's death. Shortly after the dictator's downfall, he was appointed as Argentine ambassador to Nicaragua at a time when Strongman Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza had publicly proclaimed that Perón would be welcome in Managua. Toranzo arranged a private talk between Tacho...
...play, Radio Writer Morton (The Eternal Light] Wishengrad shed little light on the character of the Nobel Prizewinning medical scientist who has a hard time realizing that "intelligence is impotent to cope with the brute of reality." The reality in this version of the oft-revised play was the revolt of fellow Hungarians. Until his final hour, the pacifist-minded doctor could see little purpose in getting involved, though it was violence to achieve freedom. As the hero's son, Bradford Dillman, 26, was tender and affecting, but in summing up his parents he also summed up what...