Word: revolts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rush H. Kress, 81, ailing brother of the late founder of the 261-store S. H. Kress & Co. five-and-ten chain, was replaced as chairman by New Jersey Construction Executive Paul L. Troast,* a leader in the revolt of Kress Foundation directors that stripped Rush Kress of power (TIME, March 3). Command of the slipping company (sales slid from $176 million in 1952 to $159 million last year) will be shared by Troast, recently named President George L. Cobb and Executive Committee Chairman Frank M. Folsom. Their plan: sell off some of the chain's stores to raise...
Early in September 1954 nine young Algerian exiles met in a rented house outside Bern, Switzerland to plan the scattered hit-and-run raids which ultimately ballooned into the Algerian revolt. Of the nine original moujahids (freedom fighters), three are now dead and five are in French prisons. The only one still at large is Belkacem Krim, 35, now the senior military man in Algeria's Front de Libération Nationale. Like most Algerian rebel leaders, moody Belkacem Krim, who has five death sentences hanging over his balding head, rarely discusses his personal activities. But from Paris last...
...whole organization fell apart in 1949 when one naive conspirator was arrested carrying a full membership list. Thereafter, Krim & Co. restricted themselves to a small "secret organization," theorizing that the rebellion could rally mass support once it got started. It was on this risky theory that they launched their revolt in 1954. "The French could have stopped us easily in the beginning," says Krim. "Now we can go on fighting for a hundred years...
...Georgia) has become a pundit with a punch among the experts on Communism who too often do all their legwork in the library. During the Hungarian revolution in 1956, Zorza roamed the streets of Budapest to cover the fighting, brought out some of the most vivid reporting on the revolt. But Zorza can also slog through the dull duty of culling, collecting and collating material from the Russian press, reads six dailies that reach him within 36 hours of publication, has 50 filing drawers crammed full of significant data. "When you do your research yourself," says he, "you combine...
...Sunday morning, Nov. 4, 1956, Budapest's Radio Kossuth broadcast a message ending with the words: "To every writer in the world ... to the intelligentsia of the world! We ask all of you for help and support . . .SOS!" Then, silence. The Hungarian revolt was being crushed, the writer-intellectuals of Hungary had spoken their last free words...