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...Royal Navy (only 15% of British tars shave before noon), to problems of parthenogenesis among humans (verdict: unisexual reproduction, common in insects, is unlikely to be achieved by women, but it would cause a dickens of a problem if it should be). ¶ The Interparliamentary Union, in Bern, Switzerland, attracted 350 junketing parliamentarians from 33 nations, including Senator Estes Kefauver (see PEOPLE). Chief topic: a Universal Parliament. The majority was for it, but old Tom Connally of Texas, retiring chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, sturdily announced: "If there had been one world government, the Continental Congress, the French...
Strikers & Killers. Out of the Alps last week into the old town of Bern, fluttering with flags for the occasion, poured some 5,500 Hornussers with their wives, children and 21 freight-car loads of playing equipment. For the Hornuss Federation's "World Series," the Swiss army cleared an auxiliary airfield in the suburbs, then parceled it into 67 playing fields, each about 350 yards long and 50 yards wide. Part of the airfield became an amusement park full of merry-go-rounds, beer and milk bars, and brassy rural bands...
That evening Hornussers, families and brass bands marched, tired but proud, to the Bern railroad station. As the people of Bern cheered their country cousins, the electric trains, trailing music, rolled off among the Alps...
...replace Vincent in Bern, the President last week nominated bluff Richard C. Patterson Jr., once Ambassador to Yugoslavia, more recently to Guatemala...
What makes Novelist Romain Gary's pessimism significant is that it is not just the outpouring of a maladjusted highbrow. Gary is no Sartre watching life as a spectator. A French career diplomat now stationed in Bern, Switzerland, he has behind him a solid record as a fighter pilot in the French Air Force, which he joined in 1938. His novel, written in 1947-48, shows the extent to which many in Europe had lost heart, and lost their grip on the beliefs that made Europe great, in the fifth decade of the 20th Century...