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...center is collapsing, my right retreats, the situation is excellent, I shall attack." That mild-mannered ex-school master, Premier Guy Mollet, pulled out his copybook last week and took a timely lesson from Marshal Foch at the 1918 Battle of the Marne. Deserted by his coalition partner, Mendes-France, under withering bombardment from all sides for his handling of the North African crisis, Socialist Mollet marched out to demand a vote of confidence from the Assembly...
Four minutes later Ron Eikenberry scored a copybook try far out in the corner, diving over after a ten yard run and laterals from Charles Levine, Joslin, Allah Hobson, and Pete Palmer. Joslin's kick went wide...
...graduate of The Bronx's College of Mount St. Vincent, she was beginning her career as a teacher of English, and as she walked toward the Brooklyn high school to which she had been assigned, she felt an "excitement in the air, that particular sharp-pencil, clean-copybook, brand-new-eraser crackle in the ether that made me walk a little faster...
...comes to see if Richard, who has stayed home "sick" from school, is feeling any better. Father and daughter go to work in the morning, and in the evening daughter dates her young lawyer (Gig Young). But people make mistakes. Little Richard writes a warning to teacher in his copybook, and father intercepts it only just in time. Another time March manages, by a brilliant stroke of opportunity, to lock two of the brutes out of the house and overpower a third. He leaps to the phone-only to hear his wife cry out that Bogart...
Until recently the Americanization of Wolf Ladejinsky was a copybook success story. An immigrant, he won an education and renown as a U.S. agricultural expert who helped to stymie the Communists in the Far East. Last week, after 19 years in federal service, he lost his $11,800-a-year job as U.S. agricultural attache in Tokyo. "Mr. Wolf Ladejinsky," the Agriculture Department announced, "does not meet technical standards and security requirements . . ." Ladejinsky, 55, a short, intense, scholarly man who puffs a curved pipe, said quietly: "I came to America when I was 22, with no money, no friends...