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...clock the loudspeakers told the crowd to split into three groups. One moved along broad Nguyen Hue Boulevard. The second marched to Doc Lap Palace to cheer Premier Ngo Dinh Diem...
...result of Bulganin's efforts, the Moscow Electrical Station fulfilled its target in the first Five-Year Plan in less than three years. Bulganin's reward was an assignment to succeed Kaganovich as chairman of the Moscow Soviet-in effect, Mayor of Moscow. Bulganin built boulevards and six bridges across the Moskva River. From Britain and France he imported such "improvements" as a fleet of trolley buses and a set of spanking white gloves for the capital's traffic cops. Bulganin worked with Kaganovich and Khrushchev, then a district party boss, on the building of the Moscow...
...raining buckets in Paris' Boulevard Poissonniere one night last week as six taxi drivers shouted and gesticulated at the door of the Hotel Violet. "What kind of a circus is this?" cried one. "We'll get wet as pigs," complained another. "This calls for an extra tip." Eventually, the taxicabs got under way, carrying 16 American girls dressed in flowing silver-grey silk and toting violins, violas, cellos and a string bass; their conductor, Boris Sirpo, and a few assistants. In sum total they were the Little Chamber Orchestra from Portland, Ore., and their destination was the National...
...once more and looked up an old acquaintance, Virginia Carlson, the pretty widow of a World War II bombardier, and a poetess of modest talents (TIME, May 16). Goodie's prim idea of a big date with Virginia was to take her to the Ontra Cafeteria on Wilshire Boulevard and then to the movies. Eventually, the Knight daughters prodded Goodie into taking Virginia on more romantic evenings, and in time, says Virginia, "he finally took a look at me. Up to then, he had just been talking to me." Goodie and Virginia were married last summer. Their honeymoon...
...service from 18 to 15 months." The most striking area of political lassitude is among French students. Twenty years ago, the Latin Quarter was seething with political turmoil. Young Socialists were conspiring at back tables of La Source, royalists were skulking in La Capoulade, making occasional forays into the Boulevard St. Michel to beat up leftists. Today La Capoulade has been redecorated into a neon-lighted sundae palace; La Source is a snack...