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...either Algeria or France. General Salan has been sulking in Spain for six weeks. Young, red-bearded Pierre Lagaillarde, given "provisional liberty'' by the military tribunal trying him for his part in last January's insurrection in Algiers, fled to Spain last week, asking for political asylum. His friends in Algiers were dismayed. "I can't understand what came over Pierre," moaned one. "His trial was going so well!" Jacques Soustelle, the most dangerous man of all and De Gaulle's most gifted opponent, curiously chose last week to visit the U.S., where he answered...
...poolside on her aunt's rambling estate. In disenchantment novels, these rambling estates are the toys of a gracious childhood soon to be whisked away by that legendary anti-Santa, the '29 crash. Nathan has his losses too-a father to cancer, a mother to an insane asylum. As Novelist Wilson handles them, these are life's little ironies...
...baseball history. More than that, he gave the Yankees a warmth they had never had before. Until he signed with the Yankees, Stengel had been the funniest failure in the game. In 1910 Casey was playing the outfield in Maysville, Ky. and delighting inmates in an adjacent insane asylum by practicing his slides on the way to his position. At the time, Casey had hopes of becoming a lefthanded dentist, but soon realized he would need special equipment and, weighing the percentages, chose baseball for life. In time, Casey became a pretty fair outfielder in the National League (lifetime batting...
Jaanimets. who was granted political asylum, could only guess what reprisals might be aimed at his mother, four brothers and sister, who still live in Estonia. But he did not regret his decision. "I am not a man of speeches," he said. "I did it that I should no longer be encaged." At week's end Baltika sailed away, with out Jaanimets and without Khrushchev & Co., who had already gone home by turboprop. Instead, Baltika had a new car go: three cars (Cadillac, Oldsmobile, Comet), TV sets, air conditioners and a seven-ton truckload of capitalist loot for VIPs...
...Prague. In 1956 he visited Moscow for several months, but the Russians sized him up as a lightweight, Marxist-wise. Leaving his two daughters in a Russian boarding school, he headed back to the Western Hemisphere, landing in Montevideo in May 1957. Politically, he observed the rules of asylum by masking his Communist contacts as Russian language lessons. He indulged his love of cognac in all-night drinking bouts, threatening to flatten anyone who dared doubt his boxing ability. When he left on his Cuban junket three weeks ago, Maruca, who had urged him to go, stayed behind...