Word: specializes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Election & Ejection. As he faced the Assembly to ask for investiture last week, the emotional impact of the occasion imparted a tremor to Gaillard's normally resonant voice. Then he steadied and briskly outlined his program. Main points: special powers for pursuing the war in Algeria (including a new appeal to the rebels for a ceasefire, a new discussion of the loi cadre), a 100 billion-franc slash in government expenditures, new taxes and price controls...
...ever-mounting crisis, Gaillard went into a huddle with his new Finance Minister, the M.R.P.'s Pierre Pflimlin, decided to borrow 250 billion francs from the Bank of France to pay civil servants and meet other obligations. Then Gaillard went to work on the Assembly with demands for special powers to enforce price controls by slapping heavy fines on price gougers, and to close the shops of merchants who refuse to comply. He also proposed an extra 100 billion francs in new taxes on such semi-luxury items as wine and autos...
...removed from his leg. If B-G heard the news, he would undoubtedly have insisted on going to the funeral, and his doctor refused to accept responsibility for the consequences. Since B-G is an avid newspaper reader, Argov's friends persuaded Israel's editors to print special editions for the old man, without any mention of his aide's death. The state radio (Ben-Gurion never listens to anything but Kol Israel) omitted the news from its broadcasts...
Mighty Laika Rose. The day-to-day suspense of survival in space lost nothing from the fact that the space pup changed names with almost every orbit. The New York Times, which devoted a special inside column to the tales of wags, at first identified it as Kudryavka. a female name meaning Curly. The Times then decided the dog was a male named Limonchik (Little Lemon). Even in Moscow, reported a Baltimore Sun correspondent, an economics journal called the dog Malyshka, while Evening Moscow claimed that its real name was Zhuchka. Most papers finally agreed that sputpup was a female...
Baltimore's newspapers went on a rampage last week against a startling proposal by Mayor Thomas D'Alesandro Jr.: special taxes on advertising revenue, their main source of income. No other U.S. city, however hard up, has tried to raise cash by threatening the economic wellsprings of the press...