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General Charles de Gaulle, who quit the French government in disgust at the birth of the Fourth Republic, took back the helm of the nation Sunday at a time when many felt the Republic was headed for its death. Pressured by the fear of imminent civil war and threats of resignation by President Coty, a reluctant Chamber of Deputies voted him into office by a sizable majority...
...hoes. Tall, thin, hawk-nosed, and dressed in slightly rumpled grey suit, Jumblatt himself is a somewhat intellectual mountaineer who studied in Paris, served as a Socialist Deputy and minister in Beirut, took up Gandhian philosophy after a visit to India in 1951, and last year walked out in disgust from Nasser's Afro-Asian Peoples' Solidarity Conference in Cairo on realizing that it was Communist-run. Chamoun's policies, he said, had caused 'the most reactionary as well as the most progressive forces' to band together in united opposition. 'We have never known...
...direct a directionless mob to appropriate targets (see THE HEMISPHERE). In France, quite a different set of ambitious men (not Communist at all) anxiously watched the discontent that had long been fermenting in the exasperations of a 20-year recessional of unwon wars, in an army's disgust at political restrictions on all-out colonial defense, in a paratrooper mentality that blamed all military frustrations on the cynical surrenders of reprobate politicians in Paris. These watching men leaped in swiftly in Algiers to guide events their way, but if they could impel events they could not with certainty control...
...Live in France. Like Figaro, all France displays a curious ambivalence-a mixture of apparent political apathy and of passionate disgust for present parliamentary procedures. Ostensibly, the French dilemma hinges on Algeria: it was the suspicion that he was moving toward negotiations with the rebels that toppled Felix Gaillard after 5½ months in office. But the Algerian problem could long ago have been resolved were it not for the unreconstructed imperialist who skulks within the breast of so many Frenchmen. Cynical about government, about grandeur and glory, Frenchmen nonetheless are vulnerable to exhortations that France must rank high among...
...After a last concert at Manhattan's Lewisohn Stadium in July 1953, Levant packed off to a Pasadena sanitarium. In 1956 he managed to last 18 weeks on a Los Angeles KNXT show, Words About Music, then got a reprimand for making anti-Nixon quips and quit in disgust. Last February, after more than a year in four sanitariums, he got a call from KCOP (co-owned by Bing Crosby), was offered a temporary job filling in for ailing Jokester Tom Duggan. Ten days later Levant had a show...