Word: timed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pesquet known exactly where Mitterrand would stop his car? And why had not Mitterrand, onetime Minister of Interior and known to every police prefect in France, insisted from the very beginning upon special police protection? To this, the usually incisive Mitterrand offered a variety of answers: there was not time; he did not propose to be an informer; he was afraid for the safety of his sons. "Now that I look back," he summed up cryptically, "I reckon that I must have been teleguided and intoxicated...
...Dust Gatherers. It strained credulity that Pesquet, a political nobody, had succeeded in "teleguiding" so experienced a lawyer and cold-blooded an operator as null Mitterrand. Pesquet's peculiar personal history suggested another explanation. A man who maintains two homes on no visible income, Pesquet has eight times been accused of offenses ranging from fraud to seduction, but each time the proceedings have been suspended. To practiced students of French affaires, such a record argued that Pesquet had made himself useful to the police-and thus perhaps had come to Mitterrand's notice when he was Minister...
...Other Topic. All of the Western Big Four agree that disarmament discussions at the summit might bear eventual fruit. Although there is no chance that a single summit meeting could achieve the complete worldwide disarmament piously proposed by Khrushchev (TIME, Sept. 28), his seeming eagerness to shed some of the economic burdens of the arms race might lead him to make concessions on the all-important question of armaments inspection and control. "Reciprocal concessions" must be made, Khrushchev told the Supreme Soviet last week, and this must not be interpreted, he warned his people, as meaning he would give ground...
Supreme Soviet of the U.S.S.R., in theory the supreme political authority of Russia. Meeting for the first time since December 1958, the 1,378 assorted welders, milkmaids, bureaucrats, and novelists who are delegates were allowed to endorse Russia's new 1960 budget...
...Keeping Time. As usual, to make a show of debate, delegates were allowed to nitpick a few details. Thus a Moscow bank clerk complained that the Ministry of Culture was hoarding quantities of furniture, including 224 clocks. Then delegates unanimously approved both the budget and the 1960 plan. After all, everything was subject to change anyway: last year's plan was changed 37 times, and the chief planner himself was replaced...