Word: acte
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Three years ago, when Canadian-born Mrs. Levine was handed the world-affairs assignment, her first act was to buy 35 TIME subscriptions, one for each student, out of the school budget. The day the first copies came, she went through them page by page with her students. Soon the students began to argue-so vigorously that Mrs. Levine asked them to push their chairs into a huge circle against the wall (see cut) so that the debaters could look one another in the eye while voicing their opinions...
...Finger Points. Unlike De Gaulle, who need not act, harried Premier Pflimlin was faced with the harsh task of demonstrating here and now his capacity to give France an effective government. In the National Assembly Pflimlin won "victory" after "victory''-including a committee vote approving his hastily drafted plan to revise the constitution so as to give the Fourth Republic stronger, longer-lived Cabinets. But when it came to the issue on which his government must stand or fall-its ability to re-establish control over the insurgents of Algeria-the only tactic Pflimlin found was to pretend...
...Jimenez and Estrada were admitted to the U.S. as "parolees," required to renew their visas every 30 days. Under the letter of the law there was no way to bar their entry, for neither had ever belonged to an organization unfriendly to the U.S., as specified in the McCarran Act. As political refugees, they had merely requested the same asylum that had been previously granted to other Venezuelan politicians, many of whom are now back in their own country. Perez Jimenez stayed close to his floodlighted Miami Beach hideaway (TIME, April 21), broke his seclusion for the first time last...
...handsomest parts belong to a splendidly configured blonde named Noelle Adam in a seductress role that fits her like a leotard. Best dancer in the company proved to be a regular of the Royal Danish Ballet named Toni Lander, who managed as the wife to make her final-act love scene with the dying hero far more evocative than blonde Dancer Adam's more celebrated writhings on a banister and around the rim of a bathtub...
...what they do," says Milton Berle, who caught their nightclub act "60 or more times" in Manhattan. "It's how they do it, and they always do it different." Last week, on Dinah Shore's Chevy Show, Elaine and Mike supplied a sample: a long-distance phone conversation between a self-pitying neurotic mother and her feverishly busy scientist son who is too busy trying to launch a balky U.S. satellite to call or write. (Mike: I feel awful. Elaine: Honey, if I could believe that I'd be the happiest mother in the world...