Word: specializes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...addressed itself to a historic task. The problem before the U.N. General Assembly-the persistent, nitroglycerin-like instability of the Middle East-was infinitely complex and the potential consequences of another Mideastern explosion were incalculable. Yet, for all that, the great majority of delegates went to the fifth special session in the 13-year history of the Assembly armed with nothing more than what the Japanese engagingly called "a policy of positive wait...
...line from Egypt's shrewd Delegate Omar Loutfi by calling U.S. troops in Lebanon a "threat to international peace'' and a violation of the U.N. charter. Iraq's new Premier, Brigadier General Abdul Karim Kassem, had not talked that way to President Eisenhower's special envoy Robert Murphy the week before...
Noncom's War. Last April, Bigeard's enemies succeeded in getting him assigned to command a special school designed to train junior officers in "revolutionary warfare." Unlike many other paratroop officers, he stood aloof from the army coup of last May, earned the further dislike of the balcony generals and colonels of Algiers by scornfully condemning their coup ("The army, instead of waging war, is indulging in politics"). And early this month, when Paris Presse's Reporter Jean Larteguy visited Bigeard's school in search of material for a series on "the sickness of the French...
...them since the 1789 Revolution, the French should be experts at writing constitutions, but they still have to produce one that really works for long. Last week, with his customary lofty dignity, Premier Charles de Gaulle swept into the Palais Royal to defend his own proposed constitution before a special 39-man parliamentary committee set up to examine it. De Gaulle was out to solve two major problems that have at times virtually paralyzed his country-the chaos of a supreme but irresponsible Parliament, and the long struggle to find some permanent policy for France's colonies...
...with happy NBC executives, satisfied advertisers and fellow entertainers whom his show helped to success - think that Jack Paar should be precisely what he is: a first-rate, refreshingly different TV performer who in a single year has come out of nowhere and made a huge hit of a special kind of entertainment. What Paar brings into American living rooms five nights a week is both more and less than a comedy, variety or chatter show - it is a special show business blend that Paartisans consider uniquely satisfying...