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...looks 'too young' or 'too beautiful' for the part," said he. "What can you say to a girl who won't make a suitable Vestal Virgin?" But he had apparently found just what he was looking for. The lucky six: two divorcées, aged 39 and 47, three married women, aged 23, 56 and 60, and one unmarried girl, aged...
Three days later, in Iraq (Iran's sparsely populated but oil-fat neighbor), more anti-British demands were announced. Premier Nuri es-Said requested "revision" of a 1930 treaty which grants the British two air bases in Iraq, along the air route to India. Nuri has a reputation as an old friend of England, and his demands were diplomatically made, but even he assumed the proper anti-British posture. There was a reason: Egypt, the strongest Arab nation, had arranged through the Arab League for Iraq to follow Egypt's lead...
...France, a nation of individualists, no one insists on his individualism more than the French motorist. Only a few small towns have speed limits. A motorist may speed down Paris' famed Champs Elysées at 60 miles an hour, if he wants to (and often does). Result: France has over four times as many fatal traffic accidents per 100,000 drivers as the U.S. But even the French were startled last week by a statistic from one of the country's largest insurance companies: one in eleven French drivers, in his lifetime, kills someone...
Last month a twelve-man Belgian-French cave-exploring team went back to Basses-Pyrénées, made the long, hard climb from Licq-Athérey to Lépineux's discovery. They brought climbing ladders, cement to secure loose rock in the side of the chimney, and a windlass to lower the explorers into the unknown. Expedition Chief Max Cosyns, a Belgian nuclear physicist who goes after spelunking records on the side, estimated the chimney's depth by timing the echo from rocks that ricocheted off the limestone walls. The explorers were looking...
After the polls closed, first results flickered across luminous screens along the Champs Elysées. Parisians sat in their sidewalk cafés, totting up figures. Radical Premier Henri Queuille stayed up until long past midnight, finally went to bed saying: "As for me, I'm not worried." He was re-elected in his own district...