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When Konrad Adenauer places the traditional wreath at the Arc de Triomphe, the occasion rises above ceremonial cliche because the one thing known about France's Unknown Soldier is that he died fighting Germany. When, after jointly reviewing French and German troops, Adenauer and Charles de Gaulle attend Mass at Reims Cathedral, everyone must recall that it was once shelled by German guns...
...iron from the clawing rough, Nicklaus faced an almost impossible third shot: a monstrous trap blocked his approach to the pin, set into the narrow neck of the pear-shaped green, 100 yds. away. Choosing a wedge from his bag, Nicklaus lofted the ball in a high arc over the trap, dropped it onto the green, just 6 ft. from the pin. He coolly sank the putt for a birdie four, went ahead in the match by two strokes...
Thinking perhaps of such hapless compatriots as Joan of Arc and Marie Antoinette, Alphonse Lamartine, the 19th century French poet, declared: "Women are very frequently heroic, but seldom statesmanlike." Today, more than ever, given charm, taste, tact-and looks-the wife of a ruler can be statesmanlike simply by being a woman. In the color pages that follow, TIME surveys a new and lively generation of First Ladies who are adding style and spirit to statecraft from Abidjan to Washington. Whether entertaining at home or making the foreign rounds with their husbands, the reigning beauties of 1962 are the West...
...marble-walled showroom not far from the Arc de Triomphe, a Volkswagen representative matter-of-factly calculated that his company now accounted for 40% of the light utility trucks sold in the Paris area. Across the Rhine, Germans were snapping up Fiats and Alfas at a clip that set an Italian auto executive to chortling, "So the Germans thought they were the only ones who could export cars!" In the bustling English Ford agency in Genoa, one of the scores of Genoese awaiting delivery of a new Anglia stabbed his ringer at the word "future"' in a poster proclaiming...
...javelin of steel, its streaking taper ending in a needle tip, that seems to arc through the air even while lying still...