Word: toward
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Much Time? With equal firmness, De Gaulle rejected the implication that his government had made no progress toward settling the four-year-old Algerian revolt. One by one, he ticked off France's recent accomplishments in Algeria: the extension of equal and universal suffrage to Algeria's Moslems; the progress of a program to provide schooling for all Moslem children ("There are a lot of them"); and, most important, the Constantine Plan, under which France will pour $420 million into industrial and agricultural development of Algeria in the next year. "By comparison," he said, "the desperate battles...
...London Daily Herald. THERE IS NOT A SHRED OF IT IN THE WHITE PAPER. With varying degrees of indignation, all but two of London's newspapers agreed: the Tory government's White Paper, explaining the wave of arrests in the Central African Federation, spoke of "trends toward violence" in Nyasaland but never once offered any proof of the much-touted "R day" white massacre that had triggered all the uproar, the 50-odd African deaths and the 500 arrests (TIME, March 30). The Colonial Office limply tried to explain that "we could not jeopardize our sources," presumably paid...
Black topsoil, rolling 350 miles west and south of Buenos Aires, has nourished Argentina's agricultural past; but for its heavy-industrial future, Argentina is looking toward continent's-end Patagonia. Outwardly, Patagonia seems little more than 300,000 sq. mi. of wasteland lashed by 60-m.p.h. antarctic winds, blinded by spinning dust devils, cursed by endless drought that is relieved by only 5 in. of rain a year. Its 500,000 inhabitants earn a rugged living by running 18 million sheep and 1,500,000 goats on scrub grass...
...recognition of Red China, thus earning Washington's warm approval. He coolly denied strife-torn Newfoundland (TIME, March 23) the lavish federal aid that the province wants (leading Liberal Premier Joseph Smallwood to cry "betrayal'' and drape provincial buildings in crape). Then, as the House droned toward Easter recess, weary John Diefenbaker caught a Saskatchewan-bound jet transport for a few days off on the anniversary of his monumental election victory a year ago this week...
Diefenbaker's year as undisputed boss has left a large mark on Canadian affairs. His "vision of the north" moved toward reality as plans were drafted for new roads, railroads, and air routes stretching into the mineral-rich northland. He improved Canada's social welfare system, put into effect a long-planned national hospitalization scheme. He tightened Canada's Commonwealth ties by a two-month good-will tour of Commonwealth capitals...