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...anguish and by torment like all of you"), Delouvrier announced that, General de Gaulle having taught him how to decide, he and Challe had decided to leave Algiers and go to a command post in the country. He called upon Algeria's 9,000,000 Moslems ("I beg you, I beseech you") to come out into the streets demonstrating for De Gaulle-an appeal which, had it been heeded, might easily have set off the worst blood bath in Algerian history...
...cars without special permission-and even then may not travel in an automobile with only one member of the opposite sex, even members of the immediate family. Nuns at the wheel must adapt their habits to allow sufficient vision and freedom of movement for traffic safety. Nuns on begging missions must never go about singly, and neither nuns nor friars must beg in streets, public squares, bars, offices, hotels, private houses or sports arenas...
What I particularly like about Secretary of the Treasury Robert B. Anderson's prayer is that it gives thanks for our blessings and does not beg for special favors...
Fourteen Hours. Faced with these problems, most Indians beg for time that may not be available. India has been independent only twelve years, they say, and already the inequities of the caste system have been abolished-at least by law if not in practice. The sacredness of cows and the dark night of ignorance will give way, too, they insist, if slowly. But help must come from abroad, and ways and means of rechanneling the stream of Indian life will certainly be discussed this week by Eisenhower and Prime Minister Nehru...
...four-star general gets only $174 a month) had coolly pocketed payrolls for their own troops. Stolen military supplies had become so important to the South Korean economy that in June, when investigators stripped 1,829 army tires from civilian vehicles, Transport Minister Kim II Hwan had to beg Song to call them off-"Otherwise Seoul and other cities will be without any public transport...