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...European settlers, the most ominous move of all was the jailing (on charges of "plotting against the security of the state") of 48-year-old Publisher de Sérigny. A World War II Pétainist who barely escaped arrest when the Free French reached Algiers, bald, spectacled Alain de Sérigny has long been the uncontested respectable leader of Algiers' European community, helped incite by his savage editorials the settlers' 1956 manhandling of Premier Guy Mollet (TIME, Feb. 20, 1956) and the 1958 uprising that sparked De Gaulle's return to power...
Room at the Top. In New York City, the Times ran a classified want ad: "Part-time sales trainee offering revolutionary new hair piece. You must be bald or balding...
Empty Chairs. Bald and stockily built, with pale, penetrating blue eyes, Iain Norman Macleod, who came to London by way of the Outer Hebrides and the D-day beaches of Normandy, has met and mastered every task set him by the Tory Party. In 1950 Rab Butler, present Home Secretary, wrote to Macleod: "I've found that every time I've given you a harder job, you've done it better." By nature a New Tory, with no inbred love for the huntin', shootin', fishin' types of old-style Conservatives, Macleod has served brilliantly...
...Venice, a gondolier named Bruno is as happy as the New York cabbie; Schweitzer owns his gondola. A Manhattan barber was full of apologies one evening a year ago when his bald client asked to have his fringe trimmed at 6 p.m. The union would not allow the barber to stay that late. Schweitzer now owns the barbershop in the Chrysler Building, where the barber ("He's also my psychiatrist, the only man I tell my troubles to") is now a full operating partner, hence free from union regulations...
Massive, jowly, with an agreeable appearance that could help him pass for Mr. Clean's father, Schweitzer is playfully vain. Asked for his picture, he supplies one of himself at the age of one year (see cut), says: "I was bald then and I'm bald now." His dome will be familiar around WBAI for only one month, and then he will leave the station entirely to Pacifica. "I have to keep a free hand," he said last week, "so I can do new things...