Word: riche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Touré had hoped to bring the neighboring Ivory Coast into his labor-union state. But Félix Houphouet-Boigny, political chief of the Ivory Coast and Minister of State in De Gaulle's Cabinet, has no intention of allowing his rich colony to be dominated by Touré's strong-arm union organizers. The Ivory Coast is well-watered, agricultural land with the highest level of prosperity in all French Africa. Houphouet-Boigny, 52, who has come a long way since the days when he was an admirer of Communism, is convinced that its people...
...first glitter of the revolution has dimmed. The sandalmakers, smiths and petty merchants in the capital's dark-shadowed bazaars have found that life goes on much as before, with the rich a bit poorer and the poor no richer. Petty politicians grumble that they have not been allowed to form parties. Intellectuals complain that all but three Baghdad newspapers have been closed down (under Nuri asSaid there were nine...
Military Objective. Some of Germany's new rich have cultivated their indulgences along with their undoubted abilities. In the vicinity of industrial Frankfurt, the most popular indulgence was Rosemarie Nitribitt, a big-eyed and notably globoid blonde. Rosie's nest was feathered with Persian rugs, green velvet chairs, thick draperies, a multitude of mirrors, and a French double bed. Her closets were jammed with Paris-label dresses and 40 pairs of Italian shoes; and she always kept handy at least 150,000 marks (about $35,000) in cash...
...English Author C.P. (for Charles Percy) Snow in the New Statesman, and uses his daydream to compare the literary climate of the two nations. Trained as a physicist, now a civil service commissioner, Sir Charles is not only one of England's best novelists (The Conscience of the Rich), but a topnotch literary critic to boot. He can feel just as comfortable enmeshed in American letters as in those of his own country, and is often invited by U.S. universities for a lecture stint...
...wives' tales but part of everyday life -along with Christian miracles, Saracen tales of derring-do, and glittering fantasies of the U.S. way of life. The background against which these visions take shape is composed of blasted heaths and stark, sun-baked mountains; in the foreground are a rich aristocracy and poor peasantry whose lot is still hard despite the great strides toward prosperity made by Sicily in the past decade. Between the two extremes roam the brigands and the men of the Mafia, who from time immemorial have existed by making the "protection" indispensable to prince and peasant...