Word: versions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...General Assembly called for a "peaceful, democratic and just solution" for the "situation" in Algeria, and without condemning anyone, gave the French and the Algerian nationalists time to work things out. Last week, on the eve of another Assembly meeting, the French brought forth a draft version of their long-promised "framework law" to settle Algeria's future. Totally unacceptable, the Arabs called it, and in fact the law was something of a mouse-small, grey, and of indeterminate shape. But so deep run the divisions within Premier Maurice Bourges-Maunoury's government that the ministers themselves could...
...remained for Secretary of Labor Jim Mitchell to make the first effective public reply to the political doubletalk that the G.O.P. sponsors of strong civil rights legislation are somehow standing in the way of progress by opposing the Senate's weak version. "It is very disappointing to me," said Mitchell at a news conference in San Francisco, "to see so many of those to whom we usually look for support in the field of civil rights running from the field before the whistle is blown...
President made his own "New Life Movement" sound like nothing so much as a South Seas version of Red China's "rectification" campaign. "Our nation, building itself anew, needs the support of a mental revolution," declared Sukarno. "Mentally we must be completely rejuvenated-washed clean...
...always thrilling, according to most movie biography scripts, to die at the very height of one's career. Chaney did just that in 1930, after spreading his versatile voice all over his only sound movie, a talking version of The Unholy Three, in which he played both a ven- triloquist and a fiendish old lady. There was a popular gag going around at that time about insects: "Don't step on it; it may be Lon Chaney in disguise!" Chaney regarded the quip as a true com- pliment...
...being hung squarely around the shoulders of the manager. There were no suggestions that he be forthwith fired. But there were plenty of jeers and birdcalls from the stands and the boxes-"lame duck," "no brains," "lousy liar." When Ike met the press last week in the White House version of a clubhouse critique, newsmen quickly zeroed in on the defeats, the slurs, the possibility of change in line-up and tactics...