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...Paris, it was Pflimlin who came to the meeting as a petitioner. Only that morning the National Assembly had given Pflimlin a majority of 428 to 119 (on a vote against a Deputy who took part in the Corsican uprising - TIME, June 2). But Pflimlin had also heard the bellow of Right-Wing Deputy Jean-Louis Tixier-Vignancour: "I repeat to the government what the whole country tells...
...rumors swirled around his desert kingdom, King Saud sulked in seclusion in the private quarters of his vast, chandelier-festooned palace at Riyadh. He stopped presiding over the grand luncheons and dinners served daily in the palace dining hall to visitors and hangers-on. The loudspeakers, which customarily bellow the latest news during mealtimes, were silenced. The lord of the world's richest oil sands was so strapped for cash that his yacht Monsour had been seized in Genoa for nonpayment of an Italian architect's $600,000 fee. He was under intense pressure from royal family members...
...more specific reasons are: brilliant, blustery Executive Editor Milburn ("Pete") Akers, 57, as famed for his highhandedness in a rage as for his openhandedness with a raise or bonus; and big (6 ft. i in., 250 Ibs.), bluff Managing Editor Thomas F. (for Fox) Reynolds, 46, whose barracks-square bellow has earned him the nickname of "Boom-Boom...
...young column writer whose search for meaning amid his readers' hopeless letters wears his life away, Fritz Weaver cannot hope to out-decibel bellow-mumble-grunt O'Brien; and his adapted lines haven't the edge to slice through to the audience; but this may not be all O'Brien's fault, for Weaver drowns in turbulent philosophical soliloquies which West raced over...
...Saul Bellow, Newton Arvin, Elizabeth Hardwick, John Malcolm Brinner, and Denber Lindley will discuss "Uses of Literary Criticism" in an M.I.T.-Harvard Program Wednesday night at 8:30 in Sanders Theatre...