Word: taking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bridge World Editor Alphonse Moyse Jr. says Reader Howell has submitted a variant of the legendary Duke of Cumberland whist hand. The duke, sitting South (in this version), failed to take a single trick-and lost a bet of ?20,000 to West...
...Winer Take All. In Rouen, France, Factory Worker Andre Poultier bet his friends that he could down 30 glasses of Pernod in ten minutes, did so, barely had time to collect his money before he died...
...month which turned down the plea of the Little Rock school board for a delay of 2½ years in resuming its gradual integration program. At that time, trying to beat the date set for reopening of Little Rock's beleaguered Central High School, the court did not take time to write a full opinion. It more than made up for the deficit last week, with all nine Justices not only concurring but-an unusual move-sharing in the authorship of the 5,000 words read by Chief Justice Earl Warren...
...chief of the government in exile, Ferhat Abbas spelled out for TIME Correspondent Stanley Karnow the F.L.N.'s current position: "As long as De Gaulle does not reveal his hand, we will go on fighting. Our army has never been as strong. We are in a position to take a step forward to a ceasefire. We want to find a humane solution to this war. But while it is true that De Gaulle has not mentioned integration, the French army continues to wipe out villages and kill Algerians...
...independence you have come for, you can have it now and face immediate withdrawal of French administrative and financial aid." Olympio protested that this was no way to treat a U.N. trusteeship. Agreeing that Olympio had a point, the French promised to help train the Togolese to take full control of currency, defense and diplomacy by 1960-if Olympio would keep the terms quiet until France and all its overseas territories had voted on the new constitution. Olympio agreed. Only after the referendum was over did he broadcast the happy news to his people: by 1960 they would be free...