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Last week, like a diva making her positively final appearance. Norstad once again bade ceremonial leave to his old associates. The warmest and most unexpected leavetaking came from Charles de Gaulle, whose attitude to NATO has not been exactly ardent. At a ceremony in the Court of Honor of the 17th century Hotel des Invalides. General de Gaulle draped over General Norstad's shoulder the crimson sash and golden star of the Legion of Honor, its highest award. Like a courting giraffe, le grand Charles bent to give Lauris the buss that only one hero can bestow upon another...
...permanent adult members of the community have taken vows, and live under an oath of poverty. Husbands and wives live together, are primarily responsible for the education of their children. In imitation of Gandhi, the members of the community begin their day with yoga-like exercises, practice an ardent pacifism. They have joined in sitdown strikes at the Marcoule atomic-energy plant, demonstrated against the detention camps set up for F.L.N. supporters during the Algerian...
...issue's theme is "The States Of The Nation" and features byline articles by three of our nation's most ardent defenders of the federal system--Nelson A. Rockefeller (whose insights on the problem are well known to Harvard audiences), Richard M. Nixon, and George Romney...
Died. Vivian Beaumont Allen, sixtyish, bubbly socialite art patron and philanthropist, daughter of May Co. Department Store Mogul Joseph Shoenberg, an ardent theater angel who in 1958 donated $3,000,000 toward the $8,500,000 cost of the 1,100-seat repertory theater destined for Manhattan's Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
...devout Moslem, Nasution is antiCommunist, but has been prevented from really cracking down on Indonesia's Reds by Sukarno, who repeatedly warns against "Communist phobia." Only when the Communists use violence does Sukarno permit the army to intervene. Moreover, many of Indonesia's most ardent anti-Reds are in jail under Nasution's orders because they advocated more freedom than he thought was necessary...