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Rumor that De Gaulle was under the knife sped through Paris and the world the next morning. The staff at the Elysee Palace, De Gaulle's official residence, refused for hours either to confirm or deny the story; they may not have known the truth themselves, for the chef prepared the presidential lunch as usual. Stock prices tumbled, then recovered, on the Paris Bourse...
...getting the flash, the radio station employee checked it on the Teletype with all the wire services who have offices in Bonn. "Following message was received by WDR tonight," he tapped out, then transmitted verbatim the report of K.'s death. In each case he asked: "Can you confirm this?" But somehow the crucial question got dropped from his transmission to D.P.A. in Bonn...
...read), The Spire is clearly intended as a crowning work. Like Golding's other books, it is less a novel than a kind of fable in which a thin skin of realism is stretched to meet a rigid allegorical frame. Sometimes brilliant, sometimes tedious, it does not fully confirm the remarkably high reputation Golding now enjoys. But it proves that he has made himself the relentless modern master of two ancient and provocative themes-the loss of paradise and the sinfulness of man. At a time when fictional pessimism often drifts off into murky private maunderings about the alienation...
...statistical studies next fall confirm this forecast, the class will have a 57-43 public school-private school ratio and average college board aptitude scores hovering around the 700 mark...
Robert J. McCloskey, State Department press officer, said yesterday that he was unable to confirm the decision, but that it "seems likely" that Asseyev would return to the Soviet Union. The State Department is expected to issue a complete statement sometime this week...