Word: statesmanly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Reacting to an unkind review of his movie Touch of Evil in Britain's New Statesman, corpulent Cinemagician Orson Welles let fly with a frustrated bleat in self-defense. Although he is listed as Touch of Evil's writer and director, wrote Welles, the picture's flaws are not all his: the film appeared after "wholesale re-editing by the executive producer, a process of rehashing in which I was forbidden to participate. Confusion was further confounded by several added scenes which I did not write and was not invited to direct...
...Geneva, Ferhat Abbas, elder statesman of F.L.N., Algeria's Moslem independence movement, promptly denounced Soustelle's program as "a crude maneuver against Algerian nationalism." But from Algiers, TIME Correspondent Stanley Karnow reported...
...continued to be admired, but it was rigidly required to be loyal. Since, to the Marxist, the new society was the inevitable result of the inexorable evolution of natural law, Marxism appeared to be a triumph of science, and science in turn became a Marxist cult. In 1934 French Statesman Edouard Herriot observed that "Soviet rule has bestowed upon science all the authority of which it deprived religion...
...also customary to give a degree to some foreign statesman, and inside sources reveal that this year Pierre Pflimlin, who according to rumor will be "vacationing in the Bay State in early June," will be honored...
Behind him functioned the best political organization in Italy, much of it his own making. Inheriting the mantle of party leadership just before the death of Italy's great postwar statesman. Alcide de Gasperi, in 1954. Fanfani reorganized and rejuvenated the party from the ward level up. For this year's campaign -the first the party has had to fight without the magic name of De Gasperi -Fanfani organized 120,000 Christian Democratic militants into cells of three people each (one woman, one young man, one cell chief). Student organizations, trade-union groups, para-religious organizations...