Word: stood
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...power of Charles de Gaulle. Taken together with the intimate account of the heart searchings of De Gaulle's government supplied by Paris Correspondents Curtis Prendergast and Godfrey Blunden, the result is a comprehensive assessment of a week in which only the stubbornness and vision of one man stood between France and disaster...
Jack Kennedy stood to lose most by the change: staking his presidential hopes on the Wisconsin primary, he had counted on carrying four populous eastern districts and the delegates-at-large for a minimum of 18½ votes to Hubert Humphrey's 12½ (TIME, Feb. 1). Under the new rules, the same outcome would result in a 15½-15½ vote standoff, effectively neutralizing the Wisconsin delegation to the national convention. Said State Chairman Patrick J. Lucey, a not-so-secret Kennedy supporter: "The change can only be interpreted as an attempt to benefit the candidate...
...Maltese by ancestry-could topple a government satisfactory to the majority of their 45 million fellow citizens in Metropolitan France. But as last week wore on, metropolitan Frenchmen came to realize that it was not the insurgent settlers they had to fear; it was the French army, which stood revealed as neither a neutral witness nor an unwilling accomplice, but as the active and continuing patron of the settlers' revolt. "The army," lamented Paris' Les Echos, "has become the first party in France...
...this idea first hit me," said Steve ("the thinking man's comic") Allen, "I got that certain instinctive chill. The hair on the back of my neck almost stood up. The idea was that good." Allen's brainstorm: a 19-minute "Meeting of the Minds" inserted in his hour-long TV variety show, featuring Allen and actors playing Aristotle, Dostoevsky, Montaigne, Hegel, Freud and Clarence Darrow, the lot of them hashing over the wisdom of the ages. But NBC, unable to see in such a cerebral panel the laugh riot customarily expected of Comic Allen, summarily vetoed Thinker...
...dapper little man with the impassive face stood alone on the stage of Manhattan's Carnegie Hall fiddling his way through the tortuous technical complexities of his own "Paganiniana" Variations. While a wisp of broken horsehair from his bow floated around his head, he dazzled his listeners with a performance full of flashing colors, amazing fluctuations in volume and, on occasion, blazing speed. Then, after peeling the shredded hair from his bow and shooting the cuffs of his immaculate dress shirt, he launched into the quieter strains of Ernest Bloch's familiar violin war horse Nigun (from Baal...