Word: wing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years Morocco's only major political force has been the Istiqlal (Independence) Party, a coalition of wealthy landowners, eager left-wing social reformers and skillful politicians united by a passionate desire for freedom from French rule. When independence came, the cement that held this unlikely combination together began to crumble, and last January the party fell apart. Its right wing is led by the conservative Allal el Fassi, 49, who is little interested in Morocco's masses, devotes much of his time to visionary schemes for a "Greater Morocco," including large chunks of the Sahara. Istiqlal...
...have such an enlightened King"). And early in his career he was in high enough favor with the King to be appointed tutor to Crown Prince Moulay Hassan. But there is bad blood between Ben Barka and his former pupil, who has sided openly with Istiqlal's right wing in the current political dispute. And as commander in chief of the army, Moulay Hassan has troops to back...
...priced (factory list: $2,176, plus extras, taxes, transport) of all the U.S. soft-top models. Studebaker also added a four-door, eight-passenger Lark station wagon that will list for $2,175, not counting taxes and transport. Optimistically, President Harold Churchill forecast that Studebaker's market will wing up by one-third in 1960, lifting Lark sales close...
Sardinian-born sculptor Costantino Nivola has contributed two works to the uncompleted commons wing of Quincy. His graffito--a combination of fresco painting and engraving on white stucco--adorns the west wall of the main dining room, while a Nivola bas-relief covers the wall separating the stairwell from the dinning room...
...Supreme Court Chamber of the U.S. Capitol's Senate wing late one afternoon last week, reporters flushed a pair of tired Senators. Democrat John Kennedy of Massachusetts and conservative Republican Barry Goldwater of Arizona showed the strain of 2½ grueling weeks of battle, generally with each other, inside the 14-man Senate-House conference committee assigned to work out differences between Senate and House versions of the Labor Reform Act of 1959. A reporter asked Kennedy how labor unions would feel about the final bill just agreed on, and Goldwater playfully answered for him by shoving an imaginary...