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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rally of the French People (R.P.F.), allied with a number of small right-wing parties, the party of General Charles de Gaulle, 60, haughty, magnetic symbol of French wartime Resistance. His platform comes closest to a national program: a strong government and army, a strong France that would swing more weight in the Atlantic pact. Cried De Gaulle in Paris last week: "Rally around me! The responsibility which history imposed upon me yesterday to save the nation from the abyss today commands me to intervene directly to show the way and lead the nation." De Gaulle, say his critics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Fateful Elections | 6/18/1951 | See Source »

Roberto de Vicenzo is a handsome, 28-year-old Argentine with the shoulders of a fullback, the rhythmic golf swing of a Ben Hogan, and a powerful urge to hit the big money of the U.S. golf circuit. Last year, after whipping the best of the competition at home, he packed his bags, set out for Britain, where he was runner-up to Bobby Locke in the British Open, went on to win the open championships of Belgium, Holland and France. Last week, in his third crack at the U.S. circuit, Golfer de Vicenzo gave 15 other top pros...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Argentine Invader | 6/18/1951 | See Source »

Five-hundred fifty-one reunioners from the Class of 1926 checked in yesterday and 678 more are expected to sign up in the Union today before the silver anniversary hoopla gets into full swing. If the anticipated additional 22 also show up later in the week, that will bring the total of celebrants milling around Cambridge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Alumni Converge on Yard; Face Monstrous Schedules | 6/18/1951 | See Source »

...booming 240-yd. drives (20 yards farther than the rest of the girls) stood her well, but that is not the only secret of her success. The real trick: "to keep the ball in play," i.e., out of trouble. Babe keeps out of trouble with a fluid swing ("practice, practice, practice") which requires "a stamp of the left foot" to get the arms and body into the pivot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Big Business Babe | 6/11/1951 | See Source »

...Face of the Land. Outwardly, last week, Iran was calm. In Teheran, on a sunny afternoon, the Shah and his young bride drove to the races in their new sea-blue Rolls-Royce. Across the city, the spring cycle of parties was in full swing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAN: Dervish in Pin-Striped Suit | 6/4/1951 | See Source »

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