Word: walkout
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...Walkout. This ringing statement seemed to suggest that France would never consent to independence for Algeria, and Constantine's European settlers were cheered. But not for long. In fact, within a few minutes, the leaders of Constantine's right-wing Committee of Public Safety-seated not on the rostrum but in a stand near by-stomped out angrily. They might have helped bring De Gaulle to power, but the triumphant Premier no longer needed them...
...there is a disquieting note in the Times' dispatch. The brave lads of JT-YBJHS "failed," it seems, "...to bring about the general walkout that they had threatened." We can only deplore the spread of our national apathy even to those as yet too young to qualify as members of the Silent Generation...
...companies have legal precedent, of a sort, on their side.* The companies contend that the U.A.W. cannot afford a strike because unemployment and lagging dues have held the union's strike-war chest at $37.8 million, enough for only six weeks of benefit payments in an industry-wide walkout...
...served as Finance Minister under De Gaulle. After serving as Ambassador to Egypt and representative to NATO, he became Ambassador to the U.S. in 1955-56, but nearly lost his job when he angered Antoine Pinay by a U.S. radio interview. Foreign Minister Pinay had led a French walkout from the U. N. over Algeria, but Ambassador Couve de Murville assured his radio listeners that France would return to the U. N. "as soon as possible." Currently French Ambassador to West Germany, he was a surprise choice, was playing golf at Cologne when he got the word that...
This season La Scala's new Artistic Director Francesco Siciliani began needling Ghiringhelli about pampering prima donnas. Even before Callas' celebrated walkout on a Rome audience including Italian President Gronchi last January (TIME, Jan. 13), Ghiringhelli pointedly skipped his ritual of meeting her at the airport with flowers...