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...elite of the nation is against me," President Charles de Gaulle told a caller not long ago. He was referring to intellectuals, army officers, big businessmen and the higher reaches of bureaucracy, who at best give him lukewarm support and at worst-sabotage his policy. Most of them agree with Philosopher-Sociologist Alfred Fouillée (1838-1912) that without the elite, "there is no more France; France is reduced to the level of those people who have no history...
...sending you a letter," the telephone caller told John D. B. Junor, editor of the London Sunday Express (circ. 3,766,724). "Maybe you would like to publish it." To Editor Junor, that was the understatement of the week. The very next Sunday, at the very top of the Readers' Letters column on page 4, under the headline ''I protest-" appeared the work of Junor's caller. It was signed Beaverbrook-the one man in all England who can be sure his letters to the Express will always be published...
...catcher's left shoulder, burly (6 ft. 2 in., 210 Ibs.) Frank Dascoli, 48, seemed the epitome of the big-league baseball umpire. His gestures were flamboyant and unmistakable; his concentration was intense. His calls were sure: this season a writers' poll voted him the best ball caller in the business. Relying on his "fast thumb" (he once ejected 18 players from an exhibition game), Dascoli insisted on absolute obedience in every game he worked. But good as he was, Dascoli committed the umpire's unforgivable sin: he lost his temper in public. Fortnight ago, for calling...
...bounderish bounce and white-maned, apple-cheeked handsomeness proved catnip to women, and he maintained what his son calls a "modern seraglio" at Churt, his princely estate in Surrey. On one of his increasingly rare visits to the old man's home Richard answered the phone; the caller' wanted to speak to the mistress of the house. "Which one?" asked Richard...
...morning last week, President Kennedy's military aide, Brigadier General Chester Clifton, got an urgent telephone call. He told the caller to telephone the President at his weekend home in Middleburg, Va. Shortly afterward, in keeping with instructions he had given, the President was awakened and told that an invasion force of Cuban revolutionaries had landed as planned on the south coast of Cuba. So began John F. Kennedy's darkest and bitterest week as President...