Word: welling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...representative at General Eisenhower's North African headquarters, wound up a policy discussion with France's Charles de Gaulle with the exasperated statement: "General, you are a most impossible man to deal with." Macmillan was not heard to repeat the remark last week, but the sentiment may well have crossed his mind. For last week, all by himself, Charles de Gaulle seemed to have succeeded in postponing summit talks, perhaps until next spring...
...student of architecture at the Ecole Speciale d'Architecture in Paris, she stood 20th in a class of 156, is a competent pianist, a good swimmer and basketball player. Popular with her French classmates because she had "such a lot of heart and sensitivity," Farah comes from a well-to-do Iranian family and is distantly related to weepy ex-Premier Mohammed Mossadegh, who briefly dethroned the Shah in 1953. Her father, an army officer trained at St. Cyr, the West Point of France, died ten years ago of tuberculosis; her mother Farida is a handsome and Westernized woman...
Gazing resentfully at raw stumps, gaping holes and blocked-off streets, Rome's citizens let out a noise that could be heard distinctly above the traffic's roar. Tunneling for one underpass, charged critics, would irretrievably weaken the 16th century gate at the Piazza del Popolo, as well as whole sections of the city wall built by the Emperor Aurelian (A.D. 270-275). "Our trees are being slaughtered," added Columnist Indro Montanelli. "because they have neither voices nor votes. We are being drowned in a wave of cement...
...Arabs' economic blockade of Israel has probably caused Israel more injury than Arab armies did in two wars. It has effectively deterred Israel's plans to set itself up as an industrial nucleus to serve Middle East markets. Such well-known U.S. firms as Philco Corp., Standard Oil (New Jersey), British-Shell and Socony Mobil Oil Co., Inc. have removed themselves from the Arab League blacklist by deciding that doing business in Israel is uneconomic...
...took over the international free city from its eight-nation administration. At the time, the King had promised that the "free market in foreign exchange"-the source of all Tangier's material blessings-would go on as before. Now, it seemed, Tangier was scheduled to become, economically as well as politically, just one more Moroccan city. In the cafés of the North African seaport last week, gloomy Tangerines discussed the latest calamitous rumors...