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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gaulle did last week strengthened that belief. In a move clearly intended to head off potential army resistance, rightist General Andre Zeller, chief of staff of French ground forces, was replaced by Gaullist General Andre Demetz. And to the African Premiers, De Gaulle for the first time used the word "self-determination" in connection with Algeria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: The Denouement | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

...months before, and Argentina's rebellious military could find no constitutional successor to take over Frondizi's post. Dealing from new strength gained by open revolt (TIME, Sept. 14), the army began purging all pro-Frondizi officers from key positions of command. It was, in a word, a typical week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Crisis Every Week | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

...never again the sound of trumpets like the sound of the New York opening-night audience giving a play its unreserved approval." After all the agonies of the road, that is what happened with Once in a Lifetime, and then the beggar-playwright, rattling his cup for a kind word, was transformed into a maharajah. The day after Once in a Lifetime opened, Moss Hart staged a melodramatic epilogue: he rushed his family out of their cheap apartment, forcing them to leave the very plates on the table and the toothbrushes in their racks, and moved them to a posh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BROADWAY: A Sound of Trumpets | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

...Copenhagen meeting of the International Astronautical Federation, a Russian observer named Leonid Sedov announced that Russia would send up satellites during the International Geophysical Year, 1957-58. Hardly anyone paid attention, but Sputnik I went into orbit on Oct. 4, 1957. Leonid Sedov seemed to have the word...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Buttoned-Up Spaceman | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

...work can have in it a pent-up energy, an intense life of its own, independent of the object it may represent. When a work has this powerful "vitality, we do not connect the word beauty with it. Beauty, in the later Greek or Renaissance sense, is not the aim in my sculpture. -Henry Moore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Maker of Images | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

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