Word: seene
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wave of fraternization between French and Moslem Algerians that followed the army insurrection of May 13. "Was fraternization organized at the outset?" he demanded rhetorically. "It seems fairly probable . . . But even if fraternization was organized at the beginning, the moment came when it ceased to be organized . . . We have seen on the television and movie screens more Moslems applaud General de Gaulle than there are fellaghas in the whole of Algeria...
...Moscow last week Western diplomats and newsmen were treated to a sight seldom seen in the 40 years since the Bolsheviks stopped making revolutions and started making the rules. The sight: Russian mob demonstrations...
...being almost as interesting as the works housed beneath it. The original Louvre may go back to the 5th century. Etymologists speculate that the name may come from louverie (a meeting place of wolf hunters), or from a leper colony, or from a Saxon fortress (lower). Still to be seen in the present foundations are remains of the mighty fortress that King Philip Augustus erected on the site about 1190. But the Louvre of today owes its origins to France's great Renaissance prince of princes. Francis I, who on Aug. 2, 1546 gave the royal command to begin...
...gloom, unrecognized and unrecorded. To compound the chaos, a few pessimists figured that they had failed to fetch the line, came about and crossed it again. Not until they had suffered through an hours-long session did frantic officials make sense out of what they finally decided they had seen. First to finish the 635-mile thrash to the "onion patch" was the 64-ft. yawl Good News. Overall winner on corrected time, for the second time in a row, was Carleton Mitchell's beamy keel-and-centerboard yawl Finisterre...
Summer fiction is life seen in bikini-scope. It covers little, and that hazily. Phoenix Island is the hot season's first literary scantyweight, and it is fitfully amusing. The scarcely disguised locale is the New York summer resort of Fire Island, but the cast of psychoneurotic summer people and scurvy natives needs to be taken with a pinch of salt water...