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...shells in a bombardment that had so little military meaning that U.S. observers conclude it must have been aimed at U.S. voters on the eve of the congressional elections of Nov. 4. Red China announced its weird off-day ceasefire, also announced the replacement of Red Army Chief of Staff...
...chief of state, De Gaulle will be the direct successor to two Presidents of the Fourth Republic, two Emperors named Napoleon, 14 Presidents of the Third Republic (none now living), Vichy's Marshal Petain, and a string of kings ranging in power from the glorious days of Louis XIV, the Roi Soleil, to the hunted 10th century time of Hugh Capet, the founder of the Capetian line, who scarcely dared stir out of Paris for fear of being trounced by the powerful Count of Flanders and the proud Duke of Normandy...
...graduating class of the R.A.F. College at Cranwell. England, Air Marshal Sir Richard Atcherley, chief of the service's flight training program, confided: "You are going to be passed out by a mountebank who never passed in." The Atcherley secret: on their first try for Cranwell, Sir Richard and his twin brother David (killed in a 1952 air crash) flunked their physicals, he for weak eyes, David for a tricky kidney. Two months later they tried again. "In a contingency of this sort," said the marshal, "there are obvious advantages in being twins. So when we returned, with very...
What happened in New Haven was typical of what has been happening in several U.S. academic centers since June, when a massive (445 pp.) tome appeared under the title Existence: A New Dimension in Psychiatry and Psychology (Basic Books; $7.50). Rollo May is chief editor, and sums up the origins and distinctive features of existential psychotherapy. Sales are now around the 12,000 mark and continuing briskly. In September came Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy (Doubleday; $5), by New York University's Professor William Barrett-the most lucid exposition of the subject yet to appear in English...
Roving Assignment. In Salt Lake City, convicts publishing the Utah state prison newspaper abruptly changed the masthead listing of Escaped Editor Quay Kilburn from "Editor in Chief" to "Editor at Large...