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...Charles de Gaulle has seldom worked by any book except his own. He is a man addicted not to step-by-step plans or programs but to grand conceptions grandly achieved. For better or worse, France had voted to entrust Algeria to Charles de Gaulle...
...been tested from airplanes. Intercontinental missiles have been tested only during the past three years. We are now constructing long-range submarines, each autonomous, each able to obliterate more than a dozen cities. In a score of countries, reactors are now producing plutonium, a nuclear explosive. We cannot long entrust our lives to small numbers of men with the means of mass death at their fingertips, men filled with fear and conditioned to accept without question orders to kill tens of millions of individuals...
...keynote speech but not at a loss for words. "I started writing that speech in 1942," he told a newsman. Which means that Walter Judd knows why he is a Republican, why he calls himself a "progressive conservative," and why he thinks Republicans are the best folks to entrust with the management of the nation's domestic and foreign affairs. He intends to see that the nation knows...
...shows up in a foreign car, and no one need explain or apologize for driving one. With thousands of war babies coming of driving age and crying for their own cars, countless families have found the foreign car an inexpensive playmate for Junior-and a less precious article to entrust to freewheeling Mom. The number of two-car families has grown to 17% of all car owners. Now the three-car family is coming along; there are an estimated 375,000 such families...
...rather than the story-hungry press. Milan's daily Il Giorno (circ. 150,000), coming to the astonished realization that the Pope's chief physician was not a tried clinician, asked what was, perhaps, the most startling question raised by the whole furor: "How could Pius XII entrust his health for so many years to a quack...