Word: authority
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Election to the French Academy is for eternity and its 36 distinguished members are known as the "Immortals." Last week the Immortals were stunned when 72-year-old Novelist Pierre Benoit, an Academy member since 1931, asked to resign. The Academy refused. Said Nobel Prize Author Francois Mauriac: "One does not resign from the Academy. One is immortal for eternity." Benoit, touched by the Academy's refusal but unpersuaded, replied: "I will never again set foot in the Academy. It would really be tactless of me." Benoit had supported the unsuccessful Academy candidacy of Paul Morand, a novelist rejected...
Speaking at all-white Florida State University, Author Philip (Generation of Vipers) Wylie, 57, typically detoured from his academic chore (presenting two Wylie awards to future librarians), wished for a darker Dixie-to-come: "I hope that in a third of a century not only will we be integrated and almost all racism will be a historic fact we read about in old books, but I hope we'll be a lot further along toward all becoming tea-colored...
Died. Rex Smith, 58, world-roving, hard-living journalist and author; onetime (1937-41) editor of Newsweek, where he revamped editorial policy, helped push circulation from 190,000 to 450,000; editor of the Chicago Sun (1941-42); Vice President of American Airlines in charge of Public Relations (1946-58); of cancer; in Manhattan...
...Within the next 30 years," says Author Knowles, "explorers would find almost 10 billion bbl. in its 70,000 square miles. There were more giant oil fields lying under this wasteland than would be found in any other single area in the U.S. . . . The 2,000,000 acres belonging to the University of Texas made it one of the richest universities in the world...
...Baxter, author of a research paper on the legal problems of the Suez Canal and other international water ways, has been a member of the Law School Faculty since...