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...Last month, facing up to their fifth general election in six years, Australians wearily resigned themselves to a prolonged burst of cockatoo talk, and the sight of sulphurous crests raised in simulated alarm and indignation over the state of the nation. What they got instead was a beak-and-claw fight that made the political feathers fly as they had not done for a decade...
...chapel, M.I.T. last week raised a brand-new, 45-ft.-tall aluminum spire, the work of Sculptor-Welder Theodore Roszak (TIME, Aug. 15). So that the steeple, which looks like a cross between an attenuated lobster claw and a fragile bottle opener, would not appear machine-made, Sculptor-Welder Roszak produced something brand-new in surface ornaments: he carefully puddled ingots of aluminum into "contemporary amor-phic baroque" blobs, then welded them to the steeple's base. Still to come: a bell for the steeple. What it will look like, M.I.T. refuses to say beyond the tantalizing hint...
Scratch, Bite, Claw. The penny has its obverse, and the other side of Frankie can be a shining thing. He has a Janizary's loyalty for his few close friends. Says one: "It's sort of wonderful but frightening, like having a pet cheetah." Says Don Maguire: "You"can call him any hour of the night and tell him you've got the flu, and he will bring you minestrone." When Judy Garland was in a Boston sanitarium, Sinatra sent her flowers every day for a year, and once sent a chartered plane full of her friends...
Real rockets are not so reliable. In a new book, The Viking Rocket Story (Harper; $3.75), Milton W. Rosen describes the host of mechanical harpies that claw at each rocket that tries to take...
...anticlericalism, wine and good eating. The Radicals include able Premier Edgar Faure, who fears a Mendes comeback. They include such other ex-Premiers as slothlike Henri Queuille, the father of immobilisme; Edouard Daladier, the appeaser of Munich; 82-year-old Edouard Herriot, who fought German rearmament tooth and claw. And they include two diehard conservatives, Léon Martinaud-Déplat and René Mayer, who engineered Mendès' downfall. The Radical Socialists come close to being the fulcrum of French politics...