Word: groups
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...group dynamics in cars, back seat better. Less dashboard damage...
...ultras holed up in the heart of Algiers; while he hesitated, the insurgents strengthened their barricaded positions (see below), and echoes of the uprising spread to other Algerian cities. By the time the Cabinet assembled in Paris next afternoon, even De Gaulle seemed hesitant. Uncommunicatively, he listened while one group of ministers headed by Novelist André (Man's Fate) Malraux called for "launching fire'' against the insurgents, and another led by Minister for the Sahara Jacques Soustelle urged negotiations. In the end, all that was decided was to send Debré to Algiers to scout...
...neglect studying oil trade magazines from the U.S. Suddenly Betancourt decided he was a Communist. Today, irritated at the endless necessity of telling why, he explains somewhat vaguely: "It was the era of radicalism. Sinclair Lewis. Dreiser. John Dos Passes. In Costa Rica we formed a group. We called it the Worker and Peasant Bloc." When Gómez died, in 1935, Betancourt headed home with Carmen as his wife and left Communism behind...
...July 1945, Betancourt attended a conspiratorial meeting with a group of army officers. "The loudest voice in the military group," Betancourt wrote later, "was that of the then Major Marcos Pérez Jiménez," a short, awkward man with "thick tortoise-shell glasses and a stutter." Despite widespread belief that Medina was on the road to democracy already, Betancourt conspired with Perez Jiménez, the future dictator, to overturn President Medina. By the terms of their compact, Betancourt, head of what was by then a strong, left-oriented political party, became Provisional President...
...This group's local president, Alexander Korns '62, said yesterday that "as far as I know, it (the Committee for the Loyalty Oath) is not in existence at Harvard...