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Washington Correspondent Cham-berlin's assignment was just one part of a vast tapestry of intensive reporting by TIME'S staff in the rush of political events of the past few weeks-reporting that contributed to the cover stories on Jack Kennedy and his family (July 11) and Lyndon Johnson (July 18) in the two issues that preceded their nomination, and followed through for this week's report-in-depth on the nominating convention. Thirty staffers, headquartered in the temporary TIME offices at the Biltmore Bowl in Los Angeles' Biltmore Hotel, fanned out through corridors, caucuses...
Krim's first rebellion was against his father, a garde chamèptre (rural warden) in the mountainous, impoverished Kabylia region of eastern Algeria. His father, an old-fashioned Berber patriarch whose first loyalty was to his clan, wanted Krim to stay at home and follow the traditional Berber way of life. But Krim, determined to share in the new European existence introduced by the French, ran off to Algiers, where he lived with a cousin who was a minor civil servant, learned to read and speak French. Like the great majority of top rebel leaders, he is practically...
...Arabs in North Africa. Israel will expand. But if it grows big enough, its Arab neighbors will be unable to challenge it, and there will be peace at last in the Middle East - the kind of peace the U.N. cannot bring you, because it has become only an echo cham ber of the world's conflicts...
...cavalry school with his man-of-the-worldly ways. Wrote future General Victor d'Urbal: "Anyone who has not seen Foucauld in his room, in white flannel pajamas, comfortably ensconced on a chaise longue or a fine armchair, eating delicious foie gras washed down with an excellent cham pagne, reading Aristophanes in a de luxe edition . . . cannot form a proper idea of a man who knows how to enjoy life...
...people "too dumb to know what is best for them," but he hated "the Old Guard minds" among Republicans and became one of Adlai Stevenson's top campaign writers. He said that Ernest Hemingway's characters were "anthropoids," that those of Dos Passes were "diminished marionettes." He cham pioned Pareto, James Farrell and Robert Frost, denounced Van Wyck Brooks, Thomas Wolfe and practically everyone else. Of modern Western women he said: "I should like to call them buxom, deep-breasted, strong-thewed, fit to be mates and mothers of big men. Mathematics forbids; too high a percentage...