Word: timed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only the desire to "get out of the cycle of violence in which Algeria is locked, and to re-enter the reign of law." But there were thunderous hoots of disbelief from right-wing diehards, who were determined to stymie De Gaulle's plan for Algerian self-determination (TIME, Sept. 28). Most of the deputies from Algeria boycotted the session, and the Gaullist U.N.R. Party was shaken by the angry resignation of nine right-wingers, who considered any concessions-even talks with the rebels-as the first step toward France's total loss of Algeria. "I refuse...
...time-honored French sport of tax-as-tax-can, the government has historically been a heavy loser. But eight months ago, as part of a campaign called "Operation Embarrassment," French Finance Minister Antoine Pinay opened the nation's previously secret tax records to public scrutiny, was soon inundated by anonymous letters from citizens who wondered how their neighbors could afford a new car on an income of $600 a year. Last week came the payoff: picking up their evening papers, three French businessmen and an elderly widow found themselves the subjects of headline stories branding them as consistent...
...back to Moscow to plead for help there, and last week completed his circle tour by scurrying home to New Delhi to try to hold the party together. Best measure of his success so far: postponement of a party central-committee meeting scheduled for this week, presumably to allow time for tempers to cool...
Young men in Moslem Pakistan have a thin time of it. In many parts of the country, women are still kept in purdah, and before marriage Pakistani boys seldom meet a female who is not a close relative. With rare exceptions there is no teen-age dating, there are no mixed parties, and the sexes are segregated through grade and high school. But at Karachi University, nearly 5,000 of the 16,000 students are girls-emancipated girls who no longer hide beneath the traditional sack-like burka that shrouds devout Moslem women from head...
Most of the time, that is as far as campus romance goes. Once in a while a more venturesome lad may persuade a girl to meet him furtively in the "family room" of a coffee shop, where the daring couple can engage in the temple-pounding excitement of holding hands. More often, even an invitation to a coffeehouse is nothing but male braggadocio. Says one Karachi coed: "I know of several instances where a girl suddenly accepted such an invitation and the poor embarrassed fellow didn't know what...