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Macmillan's "grand design" is more clearly recognized in Europe than in Britain itself. Two of Britain's most ardent European backers, Belgium's Foreign Minister Paul-Henri Spaak and his Netherlands opposite number, Joseph Luns, were due in London this week to reassure Macmillan of their support, which is based largely on the expectation that British membership in the community will serve as a massive counterbalance to a Franco-German axis in Europe...
...working proms and club dates from his mid-teens. ("I never played for $5 a night in my life," says Hawkins with pride. "I was always a rich musician.") As the first jazzman of any real talent to play the tenor sax, Hawkins quickly built a reputation and an ardent following. He added to both in 1939 when he and his own nine-piece band cut Body And Soul, one of the most famous jazz disks ever recorded. Hawkins stayed as active in the bopping '40s as he had been in the swinging '30s, which would seem...
...refugee from Hitler's Germany, Stolz spent the war years as a composer of screen scores for Hollywood. In 1956 he returned to live in Vienna, where he is honored as the last practitioner of a once popular art. His most ardent fan remains a pretty Viennese to whom he was introduced in Paris during the war as Yvonne ("Einzi") Ulrich. In Reno, Einzi became his fifth wife. "Like Beethoven's and Tchaikovsky's Fifth," says Stolz with satisfaction, "Einzi is my best...
...England's Royal Yacht Squadron hit on a grand scheme: invite a U.S. boat to race-and give the brash Yankee upstarts a lesson in sailing tactics. The gauntlet was swiftly picked up by Commodore John C. Stevens, a founder of the New York Yacht Club, an ardent gambler and a shrewd sailor. The terms were tough: the course was laid out around the Isle of Wight, and Stevens' 102-ft. pilot schooner America was to race alone against the entire Royal Yacht Squadron. At the finish line, aboard her royal yacht, Queen Victoria herself waited to present...
...last May, the Front won an almost 2 to 1 endorsement at the polls. Colombia's voters approved the nation's new economic stability; they accepted Lleras' austerity for the sake of attracting foreign investment. The national debt has been cut, dollar reserves are up. An ardent champion of the Alliance for Progress, Lleras has pushed through land reform, higher income taxes, the first civil service in the history of Colombia. Though the Communists rail, he stands firm against Castro and flatly tells his people: "The new Cold War theater is clearly our hemisphere...