Word: weekending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...iron fist of Brigadier General Antonio Kebreau, Haiti's new boss, fell on the black republic last week, bringing temporary calm. After a weekend of arson and terror, the sullen followers of exiled provisional President Daniel Fignole went back to work. Kebreau jammed the jails with political prisoners...
...doubled since 1938. Citroen is 18 months behind the demand in production of its sleek new DS-igs; vacation resorts are booked solidly for July and August-not only with foreign tourists but with Frenchmen. In all France, though there are many poor, only 82,000 are unemployed. Every weekend restaurants and hotel dining rooms in provincial towns are crowded with whole French families eating a meal priced at no less than $3 a place...
...Dorothy's Rest north of San Francisco, run by the Sisters of the Transfiguration, last week's weekend retreat consisted of 30 men-two schoolteachers, one attorney, two retired, and 25 businessmen. Retreatants maintain silence except for a member selected to read aloud during meals and for private conferences with the retreat conductor. Members are encouraged to read such works as The Imitation of Christ, Evelyn Underbill's Worship, T. S. Eliot's Four Quartets. "It seems to me," says Canon Eric Montezambert, "that men are more deeply interested in retreats than women...
Half a million Parisians, valises in hand, jostled aboard 257 special trains to leave the capital for the biggest Whitsun weekend in history. Newspaper headlines, which intrigued but did not deter the holiday-goers, reported new macabre events in Algeria-and the bustling efforts of politicians to find France a new Premier...
Perhaps recalling too that TV's other inspirational spellbinder Bishop Fulton Sheen had begun his electronic tenure opposite Milton Berle and was still going strong last season against I Love Lucy, Revivalist Graham returned to the TV pulpit this weekend more streamlined and confident than ever. Eschewing the hell-fire-and-brimstone theatrics of his historical predecessors, he pitched his sermon just as he had for 24 consecutive nights to huge Garden crowds. He also added to his TV experience this week with Sunday appearances on Meet the Press and Steve Allen's Sunday night vaudeville hour. Explained...