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...fact that France's head of state was Charles de Gaulle, who clearly had overwhelming public support in Metropolitan France. Public opinion in the Metropole was behind De Gaulle partly because the likeliest alternative to his government was civil war, partly because his contemptuous refusal to bow to the insurgents' pressure gave good republicans the kind of leadership they had lacked in 1958. Frenchmen also saw Algiers' unseemly display as a blow to France's claim to be a great power. Public opinion was also behind De Gaulle, because France in 1960 is preoccupied with normality...
...dapper little man with the impassive face stood alone on the stage of Manhattan's Carnegie Hall fiddling his way through the tortuous technical complexities of his own "Paganiniana" Variations. While a wisp of broken horsehair from his bow floated around his head, he dazzled his listeners with a performance full of flashing colors, amazing fluctuations in volume and, on occasion, blazing speed. Then, after peeling the shredded hair from his bow and shooting the cuffs of his immaculate dress shirt, he launched into the quieter strains of Ernest Bloch's familiar violin war horse Nigun (from Baal...
Even more meaningful than the overall figures was the fact that Dwight Eisenhower, refusing to bow to the political temptation of tax cutting in an election year, urged that the surplus be applied to the staggering national debt of $284.5 billion. Behind that decision lay the governing philosophy of the Eisenhower Administration: the conviction that a strong domestic economy, based on a sound dollar, is vital to the future of the U.S. and the free world...
Michigan's durable (six terms) Democratic Governor G. Mennen ("Soapy") Williams doffed his eternal bow tie, donned vestments for a rather surprising role. His Sabbath assignment: lay reader in Lansing's St. Paul's Episcopal Church. His text: Isaiah 60: 1-9; Matthew...
...highhanded as it is brazen." Said Montana's Democratic Senator Mike Mansfield: "I am requesting the State Department to make a strong protest immediately, and if that is not successful, to seek a special session of the U.N." Mansfield added that if the Russians did not bow to the protest. President Eisenhower should reconsider his decision to attend the mid-May summit meeting in Paris with Russia's Khrushchev. In Japan, Tokyo's Sankei Jiji Shimbun key-noted: "Russia's shooting rockets into Britain's and America's sphere makes one dubious about notions...