Word: wings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dramatically announced that assassins had crossed the Pyrenees, eager to put a few holes in Frenchmen who were considered soft on Algeria. So many French politicians had received assassination threats that there was joking about a "Condemned-to-Death Club." One of its charter members would undoubtedly be left-wing Senator François Mitterrand, 43, a fervid anti-Gaullist and outspoken proponent of a negotiated peace in Algeria...
...Premier Mendès-France and ten times a Cabinet minister under the Fourth Republic, brilliant Franç Mitterrand was regarded by many of his colleagues as overambitious and opportunistic, but few doubted his basic honesty. Yet why attack Mitterrand? As a member of the ineffectual left-wing opposition, he had had no voice in shaping De Gaulle's Algerian policy. The attacks suggested that France's frustrated rightists were capable of anything. The government offered ois bodyguards to all prominent citizens who wanted them, including the bitterly anti-Gaullist Pierre Mendès-France...
Confession. In this jittery atmosphere, the ultra-right-wing weekly Rivarol appeared with a mocking, triumphant story. A onetime Deputy of the crackpot Poujadist right wing, one Robert Pesquet, 42, charged that he had faked the attempt on Mitterrand's life, and he had done it in connivance with Mitterrand himself. Leftist Mitterrand, said Pesquet, had conceived the scheme as a means of provoking a police crackdown on the rightists, had worked out the details in a series of three rendezvous with Pesquet. The only hitch, according to Pesquet, had come after Mitterrand had jumped the fence into...
...Right wing Phil Hime and center forward Ezra Griffith, scorers in the Andover game, will lead the Crimson attack. Other players figuring prominently in the freshman offense are right inside John McGoldrick and left wing Gil Leaf...
...Chicago, Ind. 86 Hart, Alex W. '62 19 6:1 187 Lancaster, Ohio 85 Jordan, Gerald R. '61 20 6:1 192 Revere, Mass. 84 *Keohane, Harold J. '60 22 6:2 186 Arlington, Mass. 83 Aadalen, Richard J. '61 20 6:3 195 Red Wing, Minn. 82 Boyda, Robert J. '62 19 6:1 185 Carnegie, Pa. 81 Kirk, Paul G., Jr. '60 21 5:11 185 Newton, Mass. 80 *Cappiello, David L. '60 20 5:11 195 Auburn, N.Y. 79 Ruschhaupt, David G. '62 19 6:0 175 Camp Hill, Pa. TACKLES 78 Nichols, Sargent...