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...lamented. "The great tragedy of our age is the inability of free men to create one well-rounded and essentially spiritual view of life by harnessing toward common goals their talents. Sometime, somehow, somewhere, power and responsibility must meet." He endorsed suggestions for the creation of a blue-ribbon "com mittee" representing the U.S., the United Kingdom and the Common Market to lay the groundwork for "true free-world development...
...problem with my daughter. She wants to become an actress." The neighbor, an actor himself, prescribed a drama teacher, who carefully prepared her for an audition at the Conservatoire National d'Art Dramatique. She was accepted without hesitation. A year later she made her debut at the Comédie Française in Turgenev's A Month in the Country...
Jeanne left the Comédie Française in 1952. "Everyone thought I was mad to leave," she recalls, "but it had become a prison for me. I was disgusted by the immorality of the Comédie. Everyone had been very sweet to me because I was the youngest one there, but the situation there was terrible. The established actors would take roles they didn't want just to keep others from having them." For a year she played at the prestigious Théâtre National Populaire, where her roles placed her opposite such celebrated actors...
Broadened Horizon. The shuffle of the "Conservative Consultative Com mittee," as the Tory shadow Cabinet is formally called, was occasioned by the resignation from Commons of Rab Butler, 62, who ends his long, brilliant, but in the end frustrated political career by moving to the House of Lords. In for Butler as shadow Foreign Secretary went Reggie Maudling, who needs to broaden his basically economic background if he is ever to become Prime Minister. Maudling also retained his post as Home's stand-in at the powerful party leaders' committee, which makes him the closest thing to deputy...
...East power balance, the U.S. might well be interested in the weaponry of Syria's bathtub fleet. But Attassi hardly bolstered the Syrian government's case when he blurted out in court: "I was placed under torture by electricity as soon as I was arrested." Asked for com ment on Hafez' espionage drama, U.S. Ambassador Ridgway B. Knight declared: "I don't intend to get into a spitting match with a skunk"-surely one of the most pungent if least diplomatic remarks ever made by a diplomat...