Word: rule
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Frenchmen woke up in the first days of what might be called A.D. (After De Gaulle) slightly dazed and a little disbelieving at what they had wrought. Some had doubted De Gaulle's resolve when he told them?arbitrarily, as always?that a non vote would really end his rule. Others, long accustomed to the Gaullist unexpected, wondered whether it was really for keeps, or whether De Gaulle might not still somehow come thundering back into the arena. Above all, the French, the inveterately rationalist sons and daughters of Descartes, set out to reckon a France without De Gaulle...
...most of De Gaulle's last triumphs, the administrator of France's return to order after last spring's chaos, Pompidou was unceremoniously dismissed from office by De Gaulle in July. From the role of rejected dauphin he moved skillfully to become a visible alternative to De Gaulle's rule. In the process, he may even have hastened the general's farewell to power...
...stultifying parts of De Gaulle's rule that produced the chaos of last spring. It began with students protesting against the archaic and unfair practices of France's education system...
...small investor in Europe, the rule has long been to put up and shut up. He could buy a company's stock, but for him to complain about the company's management was not done. No wonder, therefore, that last week Giorgio Valerio, chairman of Italy's Montecatini Edison, was in a state of shock. At the annual meeting of Italy's largest private company, the long-frustrated small stockholders angrily showered Valerio with a mixed barrage of small coins, epithets and crumpled copies of the company balance sheet. Their urgent message was that...
...sparked by fear among investors that Montedison was on the verge of "hidden nationalization." The two biggest government industrial enterprises-ENI and I.R.I.-recently acquired a near-controlling interest in Montedison, a diversified manufacturer of chemicals and other basic products (TIME, Oct. 18). Now they were proposing a rule change that would give government forces virtual veto power in the Montedison board. Enraged, more than 2,000 small stockholders turned up at the meeting, the largest such group ever to so gather in Italy...