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...they are, they may lose their heads as well." Probably not many colons in Tunisia would agree with him; they hope to stay. Whether they will be able to depends on French wisdom and skill-on the wisdom to recognize a changing order, on the skill to adapt with it. So far, the signs are not promising...
...Clear the Lobbies." Added Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden: "What we need now is a working base and not a beleaguered garrison . . . We have to adapt our minds more and more to the conception that countries, wherever they are, do not like to have foreign troops on their soil . . . More and more we shall have to base ourselves upon our own strategic reserve here and our ability to fly it to whatever quarter it is needed...
Mendès' plan for Tunisia (which, if successful, he may try to adapt for Algeria and Morocco) emerged from ten days of intensive conferences. Mendès used his favorite method of conversations à deux-knocking heads together. This time he set up two-man meetings between French officials and Arab representatives of the Neo-Destour (or Tunisian Nationalist) Party. His most useful collaborator was the Arab's No. 1 nationalist, the ascetic-looking, white-haired Habib Bourguiba, 51, exiled leader of the Neo-Destour. In an adroit move Mendès transferred Bourguiba from lonely sequestration...
Manhattan's Carolyn Schnurer is a fashion designer who gets her best ideas abroad, but not from the salons of other designers. Every year she travels to such far-off places as Haiti. South Africa and Japan to see what native styles and costumes she can adapt for American natives, especially as sports clothes. In ten years of such globetrotting, Carolyn Schnurer has built a big reputation-and a $7,000,000 annual business...
...keeps the other part of the people impotent. But this is his "victory": in exchange for fiscal stability, the Portuguese people have lost much of their vitality and personality. As a result of 27 years of well-masked dictatorship, the Portuguese people are now tired and skeptical and would adapt themselves to a reactionary king or a Communist dictator. For this "victory" we democrats will never forgive him . . . Like many other Portuguese youths trained by Mocidade Portuguesa, (Portuguese Youth State Organization), I was supposed to be an obedient servant. If I am not one, it is thanks to TIME...