Word: turned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...respected in 1958 one can no longer be a friend of the West. The day that Bourguiba decides to follow the path set by Nehru, Tito and Nasser, Tunisia will no longer be lied about and attacked. She will be wooed." Cooed Beirut's El Massa: "Turn to Cairo, 0 Habib. Turn to the Arab Republic, to the camp of neutralism and to dignity and sovereignty...
...bases, warned Bourguiba, "it will mean war." Breathing defiance, he took to the radio to proclaim: "Today I am the President of the Republic, but I will be the first to join the Maquis." Typically, he added in the next breath: "Tunisia is always ready to turn the page...
...throws up his job. He goes home to Connecticut with no future plans beyond Do-It-Yourselfing in a chair and making love to his wife (Martha Scott) in the daytime. He also tries his hand at baking brownies, urges a drab, neglected neighbor's wife to turn slinky, encourages a job-weary laundryman to rebel, gets a lady writer to turn soulful. When the boss (amusingly played by John McGiver) comes after him. he agrees to go back to work, but quickly quits again...
When the average driver tries to cut loose on a crowded highway, he is playing a dangerous game; first prize may be the last. But last week the dodgers and weavers got a break. At Florida's abandoned Flagler Beach Airport, even the local cops turned out to cheer as amateurs and pros whipped through brand-new driving tests devised by the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing. Instead of NASCAR's usual straight dashes down the tide-smoothed sands of Daytona Beach, the association concocted its 1958 stock-model performance tests as a yardstick of automobile...
MANEUVERABILITY was tested on a two-lane straightaway crossed by five intersections, complete with boulevard stop signs. Contestants stopped at each intersection, turned right into a 20-ft. dead end backed across the road into another dead end, then made a left turn onto the straightaway and continued on course. Points were lost for a variety of violations-failing to come to a complete stop at intersections, rolling over the white stop line, failing to finish in the almost impossible time...