Word: risings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tough back country, French hopes of creating a new Moslem spirit rise with each convert they win away from the rebel F.L.N.; no longer is Moslem support of the French confined to the docile, despised beni-oui-ouis (yes men). One village mayor switched sides abruptly after the brutal 1957 Melouza massacre by the F.L.N. Another convert was hardy Mohammed ben Chickh, only a year ago top sergeant in a crack F.L.N. commando outfit. Last September he rode into a French army post on a mule, explained he had grown disillusioned with...
...rise of supermarkets, which now sell 68% of all U.S. groceries, has brought some potent new weapons to an old competitive war: the fight between the national name brands (sold under a corporate trademark) and the private labels (groceries processed for individual stores or chains). In the past three years, the private labels have increased their share of the market for many items-instant coffee from 12% to 31%, frozen vegetables from 38% to 53%, margarine from 58% to 71%, etc. Even such an advocate of national brands as the National Tea Co. (1958 sales: $794 million) is reluctantly turning...
Despite the tempest Doctor Zhivago created, Billington emphasized that the book itself is not a predominantly political tract, "for Pasternak is not a tractical, didactic writer." But the passages which do give rise to anti-Communist sentiments, Billington continued, are the ones most quoted in Russia and in the West for political purposes...
...Class of '59 had several other distinctions. It was the last Class to escape the $10 admission application fee. It was not, however, fortunate enough to escape a tuition increase of $450 during its undergraduate career, from $800 to $1250, an unparalleled tuition rise for one Harvard class. Harvard was also the first class in which the Advanced Standing Program was implemented. Although Advanced Standing did not have a large beginning in the Class of '59, the Program has seemed a successful one, and appears to be playing an increasingly larger part in the composition of the College...
...prospected for gold in Alaska, ended up in Leavenworth in 1919 on a narcotics conviction. His cellmate turned out to be H. H. Bigelow. then the penny-pinching president of Brown & Bigelow, in prison for income tax evasion. After both were freed, Bigelow offered Ward a job. helped him rise through the ranks of Brown & Bigelow. Ward took over the company in 1933, saw sales of the firm's advertising specialty items (notably calendars) climb to $50 million in 1958. Convinced that rehabilitation must take place outside prison, outgoing, kindly Charlie Ward hired some 200 ex-convicts at Brown...