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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...another issue in the U.N. last week, the vote went badly for France. Led by the same Afro-Asian bloc that supports the Algerian rebels, the U.N. General Assembly-which has never condemned any previous nuclear tests-by a vote of 51 to 16 called upon France to abandon plans for exploding its first A-bomb in the Sahara some time next year. The U.S.. and Britain sided with France...
...first after seven wins and three ties, and it seemed sure to knock the varsity out of the Ivy League race. Yet there were no tears, no recriminations, no vows of "we'll get 'em next week." The loss was accepted with the same equanimity that marked all the previous successes. In fact, the only time the squad allowed itself a display of emotion came after the Yale game, when the players hoisted coach Munro on their shoulders for a few brief seconds...
Locked Out. In Columbia, S.C., About Face Editor James Bradley was invited to a Greater Columbia United Fund dinner, regretfully declined because of previous commitments, explained that his weekly is published by state penitentiary convicts...
...Mitchell promised last April to eat his hat on the steps of the Labor Department if unemployment did not drop below 3,000,000 in October, he thought he was making a sure bet. But last week the Labor Department announced that although employment was higher than in any previous October-66,831 000-unemployment stood at 3,272,000. Just before the figures wene officially announced, Mitchell appeared on the Department of Labor steps to keep his part of the bargain-or almost. Said Mitchell: "I am off by several hundred thousand entirely due to the steel strike...
...Rommel were absent from their coastal commands. Some of these, ironically enough, were taking part in a Kriegsspiel, a war game simulating an enemy landing in Normandy. On the very eve of Dday, the Seventh Army, guarding Normandy, was taken off alert because the weather was bad and all previous Allied landings had taken place in fair weather. The 124 planes of the 26th fighter wing stationed near the coast were pulled back on June 5. The only daylight action of the Luftwaffe on D-day was one two-plane air strike. For twelve hours, Jodl refused to release...