Word: roses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Atop a hill in Tananarive, the capital of the great French island of Madagascar, stands a rose-colored palace that once housed the royal rulers of the land. Pointing to it one day last August, Charles de Gaulle, the first French Premier ever to set foot on the island, solemnly told a throng of 30,000: "Tomorrow you will be a state once more, as you were when that palace was inhabited." Last week, having voted an overwhelming (79%) yes for De Gaulle's constitution, the Malagasy, as the inhabitants of Madagascar are known, took the general...
Golden Eggs. But the suburbs of Paris have slowly closed in on the Flea Market. Bulldozers appeared on the old Saint-Ouen parade ground. Four big housing developments rose 14 stories above the plain. Schools, children's playgrounds, sport fields, tree-lined avenues, a hospital annex are planned-and the Flea Market...
...century, Jean and Edouard de Reszke, Emma Eames, Lillian Nordica, Nellie Melba, et al. educated their audiences to hear Italian and French operas sung in their original languages. Still, educated or not, Guest Star Adelina Patti could stop the opera by singing Home, Sweet Home or The Last Rose of Summer in The Barber of Seville's lesson scene...
...Tokyo exchange set two records in a week. The number of shares changing hands rose by 30% during the week and the closing average price of 225 stocks hit $1.71, highest since the market reopened in 1949. Reasons: Premier Kishi's recent election victory, a cut in the central bank rate to 7.67%, and Japan's third consecutive bumper rice crop. ¶ On London's Threadneeue Street, where stocks have bounced back 30% since the low point last February, industrial prices rose to a new 1958 high every day in the week. The London Financial Times...
...West Germany's eight independent stock exchanges, led by Düsseldorf, the bullishness neared 1955 levels. A year ago the index of share prices on the exchanges was 192. It hit 227 in June, has since soared to 277, rose five points in the first week of October. Chief reason: a shortage of stock because many companies have been using profits to expand rather than raise capital by new stock issues. The rise has brought in more foreign buyers, stirred Germany's first crop of small investors through new mutual funds whose business is booming...