Word: roses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...direct appeal to the F.L.N.'s sense of humanity. But at the same time, they shot dead a captured Moslem whose sister-in-law, Rebahi Khebtani, is one of the three new Moslem women Deputies in the French Assembly. She was unaware of the shooting as she rose in the Assembly in Paris that evening, but her personal tragedy made her remarks all the more eloquent of the change in Algeria: "A year ago I still wore the veil. It is true that thousands of us joined the maquis, and others helped them. But it was because there...
...first test flight at Saunders-Roe's plant at Cowes, the Hovercraft rose 15 in. above the concrete runway. Test Pilot Peter Lamb maneuvered it easily, using a standard aircraft control stick. To dramatize the low friction of its air cushion, Inventor Christopher Cockrell pushed the four-ton craft around the apron by hand. Later the Hovercraft was towed out into the Solent for its first water trial. It rose in a cloud of spray and skimmed easily above the water among yachts and harbor traffic...
Last week, after 44-year-old Presbyterian McNeill had finished his Sunday sermon, the Rev. Frank C. King of Valdosta, Ga. rose to read the decision of a commission appointed by the Presbytery of Southwest Georgia to study reports of dissension within Pastor McNeill's church. The decision : Robert McNeill must go: "The interests of religion imperatively demand...
Emotional Flames. The congregation was stunned. Some women in the choir burst into tears. Several parishioners rose from their pews to denounce Commissioner King. "You have been listening to the wrong people," said one. "If we kick a Christian man and his family out like this, what hope have we?" asked another. Valdosta's King shook his head. Said he, with notable irrelevance: "The commission feels that the voice of the pulpit should be the voice of the congregation...
...give him credit, found him odd jobs to keep up the payments. With a precision instrument in his palms, a boy's confidence soared and soared. And Bach carried through by getting his boys jobs on newspapers-on condition that they help future graduates, however high they rose...