Word: sending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Moderation, in fact, was the keynote of De Gaulle's game. Ostensibly, France's World War II hero spent most of the week in solitary retreat at his home in the village of Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises, waiting for France to send for him. But from "authoritative sources" and "persons who have talked to the general within the last 48 hours" came a rash of inspired stories on his political intentions. Their burden: De Gaulle had in mind "only a short term of office," and if he got it, would confine himself to settling the Algerian...
Palms & Paratroopers. Impressive as the present wave of Moslem enthusiasm for integration is, there are staggering difficulties involved. On a one-man, one-vote basis, Algeria's Moslems would send more than 100 Deputies to the National Assembly in Paris, and they would effectively control political power in Algeria itself. If salaries, social security and family allotments were equalized with those of Metropolitan France, it would cost millions of dollars. Who would pay, and with what...
...these questions to Jacques Soustelle as he relaxed, from a killing schedule of speeches and political conferences, in the Villa des Oliviers. a spacious Moorish residence surrounded by palms, bougainvillaea and armed paratroopers. The number of Deputies Algeria will send to the National Assembly is a problem of secondary importance, declared Soustelle. "The real crux of the matter is that the Algerian Moslems want integration, not independence or any other formula. The events of the past two weeks have been a plebiscite...
...returning spaceman. Then he will try again, with a capsule fired downward at 3,000 to 4,000 m.p.h. from a high-flying missile. Next he will try to recover an orbiting satellite, to prove that the drag and heat problems on re-entry have been solved. He will send up and recover bigger and bigger animals, with chimpanzees on the top of the ladder, only one rung below man. Says Dr. Stapp: "When we've done the whole thing with three consecutive successes, getting the chimps back alive, then we'll be ready to send...
...appeal these important books will have for you that we are willing to bet that five of them will be best sellers by the first week in May." The terms: if more than one of the six failed to make the Times bestseller list by then, Doubleday promised to send a copy of any one of them "absolutely free" to anybody asking...