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Since they disagree on almost everything else, many Frenchmen disagreed with M. Mauriac's dour outlook. What was more striking in France last week, however, was that more & more Frenchmen were beginning to agree on one of the major causes of their chronic parliamentary crises. The cause: the constitution of the Fourth Republic, which came into force in 1946 and since has spawned 15 consecutive governments ranging in health from sickly to stillborn. So long as the constitution remains unchanged, Frenchmen are beginning to realize, premiers and cabinets are bound to come & go with distressing frequency...
Died. Prince Yasuhito Chichibu. 50, younger brother of Japan's Emperor Hirohito; of a liver ailment complicated by chronic pleurisy; in his villa at Kugenuma, Japan. The Oxford-educated prince was in ill health during most of World War II, sat it out with Tokyo's military garrison. At war's end Chichibu became Western-minded again, avidly read American comic strips ("Li'l Abner ... I can't understand...
Under the old immigration law, foreign travelers arriving in the U.S. were duly asked whether they were, among other things, criminals, imbeciles, insane, illiterate, chronic alcoholics, beggars, polygamists, prostitutes, pimps, anarchists, opponents of "organized government." If the answer proved to be yes to any of these questions, they could be barred from the U.S. Crew members traveled on a collective visa issued for the entire ship's company and were asked only some of the embarrassing questions. Mostly U.S. immigration officials passed them with a nod and a wave...
...America Conference and 1950 winners of the N.F.L. title, had backed into their conference championship with their worst season ever, an 8-4 record. But Cleveland, like baseball's New York Yankees, could usually be counted on to win the big ones. The Detroit Lions, chronic paupers of the league, had not won a conference championship since 1935. After losing two of their first three games, the Lions, well stocked with castoffs from other teams, roared back to a tie with the defending champion Los Angeles Rams for their division title, then whipped the Rams...
...Metropolitan Opera next spring, he will have completely restyled twelve operas and achieved a good part of what he was hired to do, i.e., make Met productions a consistent pleasure to the eye as well as the ear. He has not been able to cure the Met's chronic deficits (last year's: about $475,000), but the directors are content. Last week, to nobody's surprise, they signed Bing up for another three years...