Word: flagging
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Raising the Flag...
...Although it flies the Italian flag, Alitalia [June 10] gets no direct subsidy from the Italian government. Yet, with the exception of 1958 when we bore the heavy expenses of inaugurating North Atlantic service, we have shown a profit every year since...
...some great secret upheaval going on in Red China? The editorial in the party journal, Red Flag, certainly had a bloodthirsty ring. "A death struggle between the bourgeoisie to restore capitalism and the proletariat" is taking place, warned Red Flag, calling on the people of Red China to guard against a "counterrevolutionary" uprising of the 1956 Hungarian variety. "Failure to take the necessary steps to prevent it would cost the lives of millions of our people...
...Tickets for the six performances were sold out weeks in advance, and a glittering audience of the city's high society turned out for opening night. Jean-Louis Barrault, director of the Odeon Theater, declared in a precurtain speech that since the Odeon was flying the American flag that night, the theater was now the 51st state...
...much for politics and prestige as for profits, General Charles de Gaulle encourages French businessmen to go East. Last week two nationally owned French concerns, Renault and Air France, followed the flag with their francs and disclosed major agreements with Communist countries...