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French Ambassador Herve Alphand, 58, and his wife Nicole had been close to the Kennedys, but when Lyndon Johnson came to the White House, the entente was not all that cordiale ("I suppose we will have to learn zee bar-bee-cue," quipped Nicole). For more than a year there has been gossip that the Alphands would be leaving Washington. Now called home to Paris to take over the No. 2 post in the Quai d'Orsay under Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville, Alphand makes way in Washington for a Frenchman who might better understand...
...elections, and then, whether he should resign from the junta to run, as the constitution requires. Three weeks ago, in the face of mounting pressure on all sides, Barrientos suddenly announced that he was withdrawing from the elections in the interests of "national harmony and unity." Almost on cue, a series of noisy protest demonstrations erupted among pro-Barrientos peasants in Cochabamba and Sucre, south of La Paz. The peasants set up roadblocks along the highways, invaded and occupied Cochabamba Airport, the air communications hub of Bolivia. At that, Barrientos himself flew down to Cochabamba, and announced that...
Nothing like a relay satellite was within the reach of the best technology of 1945, but the needed elements were developed as if on cue. Transistors (invented in 1948) and other solid-state electronic devices replaced vacuum tubes, which would have been too bulky, short-lived and power-hungry for use in satellites. High-power rockets were spawned by the U.S.-Soviet race for long-range ballistic missiles. High-speed electronic computers appeared just in time to take over the all-but-impossible task of calculating orbits, solving complex equations in split seconds...
...poolroom owner, Joe learned the game at four, won the junior world championship at 12, the armed-services title at 23. Then he bought a butcher shop, did not touch a cue again for 17 years. Two years ago he broke out of retirement, took a job managing a billiard parlor in Jackson Heights, N.Y. "I saw the way the game was growing," he says, "and I decided to try again." Last month he ran a record 150 straight balls in a tournament at Burbank, Calif., and last week he won eight games in a row before losing...
...Alec Guinness movie. He was indicted by a federal grand jury for making an illegal phone call and transporting stolen goods across state lines. As Government agents described events, Mayfield made a telephone call- that illegal call- to an acquaintance employed by Colgate-Palmolive, maker of Colgate toothpaste and Cue, strong competitors of Crest. He offered to sell the marketing plans to Colgate...