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...Boulevard. In Algiers-where censors vainly tried to hold up the news -word of Massu's dismissal sent European crowds surging into the streets with cries of "De Gaulle to the gallows!" On a sunny Sunday more crowds milled aimlessly along the city's great Boulevard Laferrière. But at noon-when many of them began to drift off for lunch-an ultra spokesman appeared on a balcony to shout, "French Algeria is surely worth a meal!" Late in the afternoon the restless crowd began overturning cars and setting up street barricades...
France took a fond pride in its rising young star. Hatless, in rumpled trenchcoat, cigarette dangling, he became a familiar figure along the Boulevard St. Germain, and on his arm there always seemed to be a pretty woman. But life still remained a procession of causes. He resigned from UNESCO when Franco's Spain joined the U.N.; he campaigned for German workers killed by Communist police in East Berlin. Alone in his hotel room, standing at a chest-high desk, he wrote. In 1951 his fiercely anti-Marxist The Rebel burst upon Paris...
...task of good reporting lies not ' merely in the struggle for the gritty word that captures the death of an African rebel in a dusty Congo boulevard, or for the succinct phrase that clarifies the politely vague deliberations of the conference room. More challengingly. the job demands the timely summing-up that gives recent events meaning in the light of what has gone before. By its annual Man of the Year cover story, by CINEMA'S choices of the year's top films, by FOREIGN NEWS'S analysis of the plight of the world...
Last week the Southern California Dental Hospital stood as a glittering, $1,750,000 glass-and-marble monument to Hay's initiative. On Sunset Boulevard, hard by Los Angeles' "hospital row," it is the nation's (perhaps the world's) first hospital built exclusively for dentistry. And it was as empty as a freshly prepared dental cavity. Hay's planning had foreseen everything-except how to get patients in. Dental cowardice is a common ailment...
...playing opposite. Result: no one noticed Rogers (says Anne: "I don't know where the kid is now"), but Fox signed Anne. Of course Mamma went along to Hollywood-on Anne's first plane ride. She had to see her daughter settled in a small Sunset Boulevard apartment before she felt it safe to return to Macy...