Word: strains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After lunch (1 to 2:30) De Gaulle returns to his office, does paperwork steadily until 8. then adjourns for dinner and a quiet evening with his wife. Determined to avoid the nervous strain that wore 25 Ibs. off one of his predecessors, he makes it a rule that he is not to be disturbed in the evening except for a grave emergency. So far there has been no emergency his staff considered that grave...
...their first study mission to Canada for the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee last May, Representatives Brooks Hays of Arkansas and Frank M. Coffin of Maine found a disturbing strain in the traditionally good relations between the U.S. and Canada. Last week Democrats Hays and Coffin, who traveled 7,000 miles talking to Americans and Canadians, produced a more detailed report. Conclusion: while relations have "improved" since spring in the sense that both nations are aware of their differences, that awareness has led to "the discovery of an ever-enlarging number of problems...
Their secret seems to be that no strain -from highly organized Betty's husband and two children to highly disorganized Adolph's feckless bachelorhood-has flawed a 20-year collaboration. "If I weren't stuck with her as my partner," Adolph once wrote in tribute to Betty, "I could be off on my own and free to starve to death-or worse yet, free to bore myself to death...
Four months ago Peking boasted that true Communism would be achieved in as little as "three to six years." Last week the Chinese Reds sang a different tune: it might take "15 or 20 years" to do the job. And in the midst of these signs of strain, Red Boss Mao Tse-tung stepped down from the prestigious but not crucial position of head of state, which he has held ever since 1949. He remained as party chairman-the key job in Communist China...
...ability to maintain fighting shape at widely varying weights. Now a natural heavyweight, he somehow manages to shed enough poundage from an already fat-spare frame to make the 175 lb. limit for light-heavyweight title defenses. For Durelle, Archie shrank from 208 to 174 without noticeable strain or impairment of his powerful punch. He slyly insists he got a secret reducing formula while fighting in Australia years ago, gave an aborigine a red turtlenecked sweater for it. Says Archie: "I figured they had the straight dope. All the time I was there, I never saw a fat aborigine...