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...Manila, Philippine President Carlos Garcia described the launching as "the best proof of the free world's claim that in the field of technology as well as elsewhere it can and has maintained its leadership." West Germany's Welt am Sonntag observed that "space no longer belongs to the Soviet Union alone. America has caught up with the Soviet Sputnik lead." It added, with pardonable local pride, that the achievement was "a personal triumph for Wernher von Braun and his German colleagues...
...urbanely the judges listened. After two hours' deliberation, they handed out their punishment: a five-year suspended sentence. Twelve years after, the passionate division of all France between those who collaborated and those who resisted had worn itself out. Noted one Paris newspaper: "Guérard's best defense attorney was time...
Theory of Conflict. Banda, a onetime Oxford undergraduate who shared the same Christ Church staircase with Sir Anthony Eden, is a devout Buddhist, is Buddhistically sure that everything is for the best in Ceylon's green world. "Conflict is very essential to life," he says. "But it must be confict that does not militate against a higher harmony above it. I have always felt that ultimate reconciliation was possible, and the people of this country have now made it possible for me to put my theories into practice...
...radio call for his followers all over the country to march on the capital, threatened to investigate graft by M.D.N. leaders and "jail them as thieves." But behind the scenes he talked smoothly with Cruz Salazar about the need for "national unity" against Communism. Bowing to the best hope for peace. Cruz Salazar accepted the offer of M.D.N. participation in the Cabinet, an ambassadorial post for himself. Some militant M.D.N. Congressmen cried sellout, but enough will probably go along to give Ydigoras his majority. With the confidence of a winner, the general began expertly easing off on campaign slogans against...
Returning from a five-week vacation at Sandringham House, Britain's dreamy-eyed Princess Margaret, though having slipped off the current best-dressed list (TIME, Jan. 13), showed signs of trying for a best-tressed roster. Her latest hairdo, displayed as she sat in her limousine at London's Liverpool Street Station, features middle-parted bangs, neatly accented by a red butcher-boy beret...