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Condemned Unheard. The National Assembly considered itself deeply insulted when Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville made an appearance to defend De Gaulle's concept of a Europe consist ing of federated but sovereign states, and stipulated that the plan could only be debated, not voted upon. All ten Communist Deputies flatly refused to attend the session. More than half of the Deputies - Socialists, Radicals, Popular Republicans, Independents - walked out en masse. Left facing empty benches, except for Gaullist Deputies, Couve de Murville complained, "We were condemned before we could be heard." Later, 293 of the 550 members...
...remarks on the Channel Tunnel, at Lowell House yesterday evening. One or two small points: Mathieu Favier was not Napoleon's staff sergeant but an eminent engineer. And today's tube and tunnel people are on speaking terms: beyond the Channel, members of the competing groups, both of which consist of highly reputable firms, frequently engage in successful ventures together...
...color). And if he has explored a more limited area, he has often probed deeper. He can find in one room more excitement than another man might find in a world. He can paint the commonest object and somehow suggest a universe. "Progress in art," he says, "does not consist in extending one's limitations, but in knowing them better...
...yearly costs), while taking graduate courses if they wish to. Columbia permits almost a year of graduate study credit within the four-year span. At the same time, Columbia is revamping its pioneering (1919) two-year general education program, Contemporary Civilization. The required sophomore part used to consist of smatterings from the works of 50 or so great thinkers; now it offers solid courses from anthropology to economics, a shrewd compromise between specialization and generalization...
Look well, and you'll see a curious thing about the pitcures in the Adams House Photography Festival--practically every entrant including most of the judges, was petrified by the possibility that he might take a picture exposing a live, human emotion. With few exceptions, the entries consist of still lifes of fog and mountains and trees and water and whatever other of God's wonders were available. Darkroom wonders and technical manipulations, generally leading to a sterile effect, also cluttered the walls. There were of course, some excellent examples of this type--Dean Arthur D. Trottenbergs' Groton store...