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...NATO's new Paris headquarters last week, the glow of cheer was nearly as bright as the premature spring sunshine that caressed strollers on the Champs Elysées. For one thing, France-Soir, biggest of Paris dailies, reported that Charles de Gaulle had instructed his top brass: "You make arrangements with the Atlantic organization for air and naval cooperation. I personally will settle with Eisenhower the problems of stocking U.S. atomic bombs in France." For more than a year, De Gaulle's open hostility to the NATO concept of integrated Western defense had given the alliance...
...color were Caesar's eyes?"* For a coming issue, Warsley plans a reader-requested translation of one of Elvis Presley's screaming hits, in which the key line, "You ain't nothin' but a hound dog," would come out "Tu nihil aliud nisi canis venaticus es...
...fleet dropped anchor in the Bay of Tunis, and Ike and his party buzzed by helicopter to the Tunis suburb of La Marsa, just north of the old Punic ruins of Carthage. There, on a small asphalt lot, 500 yards from the presidential summer and guest palace Dar es Saada ("House of Happiness"), Ike shook hands with Tunisia's stubby, vigorous President Habib Bourguiba. In his warm words of welcome, Bourguiba put in a plug for anticolonialism. "This visit," said he, "will bring high hope and promise to the peoples of Africa fighting a decisive battle for human dignity...
...Berg interrupted work on his opera Lulu to write the concerto in the summer of 1935, died before he could hear it performed. A tenderly elegiac work, it spreads a filigreed web of wispy lyric phrases, works up to a climax drawn from a phrase of a Lutheran hymn (Es ist genug), ends with the violin soaring softly above the fading orchestra. Last week's audience warmly applauded Stern's sensitive reading of the concerto's twilit moods-which he describes as "neurotic...
...come to work, Brazil is determined to lend all the support it can. "Here man is overwhelmed by the enormity of nature," says SESP Physician Carlos Guimaräes. "But we are going to make the Amazon a safe and healthy place to live. Then it can produce wealth and abundance...