Word: less
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...entirely apart from political discussions." And in his first order of the day to the troops in Algeria, as President and "Chief of the Armies," De Gaulle himself sternly declared: "In full knowledge of the facts, I have fixed what must be our course of action in Algeria," no less sternly demanded of the army "devotion and discipline in the service of France...
Beautiful Head. Twenty years ago, Trieste was second only to Genoa among Italian ports; today it is eighth. Trieste's maritime traffic has dropped 25% in the past two years, and rail traffic is less than half the 1957 rate. More than 17,000 Triestini (12% of the labor force) are unemployed, and the number of "disguised unemployed"-their livelihood provided by government make-work projects-is steadily increasing...
Laotian solidarity, he also practiced it. He had 25 wives (though only the Queen was called wife), and the number of his children was reckoned from the official 38 to a less official 100. Once, Novelist W. Somerset Maugham wrote about his royal neighbor on the Riviera: "Whenever the King is in his residence, which is a pretty villa next to mine, there always seem to be at least 70 people staying with him-all of them children...
Swelling Classes. It was about time. As colleges across the nation are learning, the state of English composition in most U.S. schools is deplorable. A British 14-yearold is often less creative than his U.S. counterpart, but his writing is notably superior. He can often outwrite the average U.S. college freshman, as several studies have proved. He can do so because he practices day after day. U.S. colleges have freshmen who never wrote a single theme in four years of high school...
When he wrote these lines (in LIFE), soon after winning $129,000 on Twenty-One, Charles Van Doren was sneering at the intellectual futility of TV's quiz games. But by last week, Van Doren's words could be read less as sneer than as simple statement of fact. The office of New York District Attorney Frank Hogan dropped its last qualifying hedges, in effect said that Van Doren had admitted receiving both questions and answers on Twenty-One, as had his successor, Hank Bloomgarden...