Word: roundup
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Before the roundup was over, a phone jangled furiously in the Rabat bedroom of André Dubois, France's tall, elegant Ambassador to Morocco. When Dubois picked up the receiver a Frenchman serving with the Moroccan police excitedly reported that the newly independent Moroccan government was rounding up more than 50 members and alleged sympathizers of Présence Française, the organization of diehard colons who cannot reconcile themselves to Moroccan independence. A week earlier Moroccan police had discovered that Présence Française was circulating leaflets which urged Morocco's Berber minority...
Each of the paper's 19 correspondents is an experienced reporter who still holds down a regular news job, gets $100 a month for doing a monthly roundup on the hard facts of desegregation developments in his state. "We don't want any adjectives or adverbs," says Executive Director Don Shoemaker. 43, who has held editing jobs on Southern newspapers since 1934. A major reporting problem is to get school officials to speak for attribution; the subject is often just too hot. It is just as hard to get frank views from ordinary citizens in any attempt...
CUSSING in a dozen tongues, workmen sweated last week in steamy Venice to finish modern art's biggest Babel. By week's end Venice's biennial roundup of contemporary painting and sculpture, due to open this week, had installed only a quarter of the nearly 6,000 paintings and sculptures sent in from 34 countries (including Russia for the first time since 1934). Only at the prim brick American Pavilion did contentment reign. Brisk, brusque Katharine Kuh, curator of modern painting at Chicago's Art Institute, had the U.S. contribution all up and dusted. It made...
...reports to Germany with a rubber-stamp cat's paw, claimed to have plotted the sinking (1916) of Lord Kitchener's cruiser Hampshire. Chief G-man J. Edgar Hoover called his concerted FBI swoop (in 1941) on Duquesne's New York City mob the greatest spy roundup in U.S. history...
...Last Roundup. Several weeks ago the Sultan started his final tour-through the Temerloh district in central Pahang, where Communists were still active. Dressed in Bermuda shorts and bright sports shirt, he was greeted by idolizing and contrite villagers. They cried: "Ampun, Tuanku, beribu beribu ampun" (Forgiveness, Your Highness, thousand thousand forgiveness). In each village he warned that his amnesty would end with this tour and urged the villagers to purge themselves of Communists...