Word: whats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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In fact, something about the sight of automated soldiering seemed to provoke an irrepressible urge in passers-by to make the sentries convict themselves of being still human. Girls took to throwing their arms around the guards while chums snapped pictures to be sent home. Some sentries suffered the indignity...
Snapped the Evening News: "Sentries have been tormented-there is no other word for it-by visitors who should know better." "Are guards to fall in line as tourist attractions along with Swiss yodelers and Indian snake charmers?" demanded the News Chronicle. The Daily Sketch, hinting that the "American Mom...
"Our California." The Sahara has captured the imagination of all France. At least a million French families have invested in Saharan oil stocks, and every month thousands of young Frenchmen apply for jobs in the Sahara fields. French newspapers refer to the Sahara as "our California," and the man most...
The Competition Animal. Ever since his birth in the Cevennes Mountains of southern France, Jacques Soustelle has been what the French call "a competition animal." Born with a double handicap-his family was poor and of France's Protestant minority-Soustelle early decided that "I had to succeed, and...
As to his present position in the political spectrum, even Soustelle himself cannot define it. "In social matters," he said last week, "I could today be classified as a complete man of the left. But I do not admit that to be a good republican one must deny one'...