Word: whats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The Sunny Season. In all the new questionings going on, the public proclamations and the private forebodings, events seemed to be under the domination of General Charles de Gaulle. In fact, he was having his way rather than showing leadership (for leadership implies an agreed and shared objective). De Gaulle...
In one month, der Alte had received at least two letters from President Eisenhower, one from Premier Khrushchev and several from President de Gaulle, and hugged them to himself. He treated Foreign Minister Heinrich von Brentano highhandedly, ordering him to draft communications, then editing and sending them off without bothering...
To See the Pope. Several weeks ago a Bank of America officer moved into the village, quietly began listing everyone entitled to stock- from 18-month-old Orietta Perasso to 90-year-old Giovanni Ferretto. Unaccustomed to stocks and banks, or for that matter to generous, impulsive gestures from strangers...
Just where the Watutsis came from, whether from Egypt or Ethiopia, no one can say, but as soon as they made their appearance in what was to become Ruanda and Urundi, their great size (average height: 6 ft. 6 in.) froze the hearts of the tribes already living there. The...
Yet Abu Simbel, which has defied man, time and the desert sands for three millenniums, may soon be drowned by the backed-up waters of the Nile, and its sandstone glories dissolved to nothingness. With it will die the four 65-ft. guardian statues of Ramses II, who built the...