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...crise de régime turned the talk to the ever-ready strongman, General de Gaulle. By the sheerest coincidence, the hawk-nosed wartime leader, now 66, chose last week to make one of his periodic excursions to Paris. Typically, De Gaulle's utterances had a Delphic quality. Said he: "You tell me that the political men of all groups are unanimous in affirming that only De Gaulle can find a solution. But name me one person who has said so in Parliament." Then he added: "I could not make peace in Algeria without a blank check from Parliament...
...Business," laconic Cal Coolidge once remarked, "will either be better or worse." In Washington last week, a divergence of opinion about the state of the U.S. economy presented the nation with an equally Delphic appraisal. Said one top Government economist: "The danger of inflation has passed and the nation is in a phase of healthy economic readjustment." Federal Reserve Board Chairman William McChesney Martin Jr. disagreed. Testifying before the Senate Finance Committee, he insisted that inflation is the most critical economic problem facing the country, and that a rolling business adjustment is needed to avoid serious deflation. Said the A.F.L...
...courtship of Hilda is punctuated by Casimir's sky-scanning Delphic queries: "Are the Life-Gods and the Fate-Gods willing?" Hilda is willing, and there is scarcely a dull moment spent with the count as he 1) sees his first roller-skating show wrecked by a storm, 2) witnesses a local bigwig being shot to death by a bordello madam, 3) two-times Hilda with a carnival doxy billed as ''Phazma the Phlame Girl." 4) has his second roller-skating show filched by a double-crossing partner, 5) goes back to the sea with visions...
...only against the superior strength of Harvard units that this fall's team, captained by Sarah Stevens '57, failed to win. The Cliffies lost to the polished athletes of three clubs: Delphic, 0-2; Porcellian...
...cruise up the castled Rhine. They met three times for four hours, and both stubborn men had the honesty not to feign a friendship they did not feel. When newsmen asked the Indian Prime Minister whether he accepted Bonn as the only legitimate German government, he made a characteristically Delphic response: "You want me to plunge headlong into the sea before I learn to swim." Nor was Nehru prepared to give any assurance that India would not some day recognize Communist East Germany, "I do not know what future developments will bring," said...