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...this year, the French army in Algeria has killed 2,200 suspected fellagha. Yet far from being stamped out, the fellagha revolt is spreading. It has long since dwarfed the Mau Mau war in Kenya; it now threatens France with another Indo-China, this time in Europe's backyard...
...sooner had President Eisenhower moved into his Gettysburg farm last week, than enterprising photographers, training long lenses from perches as far away as one-eighth of a mile, got pictures that seemed to put the viewer right into Ike's backyard. Next day Presidential Press Secretary James C. Hagerty asked photographers to stop it. "It is vitally important to the welfare and to the health of the President," said Hagerty. "that he be allowed to walk around that farm without having or being conscious of telescopic lenses on him at all times...
...Backyard. Calcagno himself was born just one remove from Europe. The son of Italian immigrant parents, he grew up on a cattle ranch in California's Big Sur country, first tried his hand at watercolors in New Orleans while on a furlough from the U.S. Air Force. Says he: "I got a big kick out of taking things, shuffling them up, putting in yellow skies." The surprise came when a New Orleans gallery picked up his work, gave him a show. Thus encouraged, Calcagno took a leisurely painting tour of Mexico after World War II, then showed...
...were like kids isolated in our own backyard," Calcagno recalls. "We made up our games and the rules to go with them. Painting became an end in itself. We were fighting and protesting for self-liberation. The danger is that protest becomes an end in itself." The school produced its eccentrics, including one student who wound up in a mental hospital. But working alongside Calcagno were several of today's foremost younger moderns including John Hultberg, top prizewinner of this year's Corcoran Biennial (TIME...
...Angeles Times managed a wry smile in a cartoon that showed Paul Chabas' famed September Morn adapted to local conditions (see cut). But smog had stopped being a joke. City health officials banned use of Los Angeles' millions of backyard incinerators, except on weekend mornings. If the smog got worse, they planned to shut down all refineries, possibly halt the sale of gasoline, to stop air contamination. But scientists are not sure just how the air is contaminated. While greyed-out Los Angeles was doing battle, a Minneapolis meeting of smog fighters from all over the U.S. suggested...