Word: throughly
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Truncated Puppet. Frenchmen peered hopefully through the glorious opacity of De Gaulle's prose to see whether his rocket promised to go into orbit-or to fizzle. So far, the signs were not encouraging.
Each year when the time comes for Morocco's three-day independence blowout, a kindly foreign friend is called upon to pick up most of the tab. In 1959 the U.S. donated a fleet of trucks and armored vehicles to roll in the parade down the palm-lined streets...
As in the U.S., prohibition in India got its start through misdirected idealism. Mohandas Gandhi, the revered father of Indian independence, maintained that "there is no halfway house between drunkenness and prohibition," and under the Gandhian influence prohibition was specified as a national goal in India's constitution. Today...
Righteousness Run Riot. Among sophisticated Indians there is a growing sentiment for repeal, especially in regions like Bombay, which not only lose revenue through prohibition but must pay the heavy cost of enforcement. New Delhi's Hindustan Times claims that "crime has been on the increase ever since prohibition...
Since last April when they toppled former President Syngman Rhee in a series of bloody riots (TIME, April 25 et. seq.), South Korea's students have shown less and less desire to return to their books, more and more have acted as if they alone are competent to run...