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...resort town of Evian-les-Bains, on the French side of the Lake of Geneva, seemed to be rushing the season last week. Colored lights were strung from public buildings, and some 13,000 tulips, pansies and violets were hastily planted in the town's public gardens. The gala preparations were meant not for sun-loving tourists, but for two delegations-one French, the other from the Algerian rebels-that are gathering in Evian in the hope of hammering out a peaceful settlement of the six-year-old Algerian...
...biggest scientific confab ever. Besides the 5,000 scientists from 67 countries, and 900 accredited correspondents, came uncounted thousands of atomic businessmen, many with wives or camp followers. Geneva has 6,500 hotel beds, but it was so jammed that some of the delegates were forced to bunk in Evian, France, 60 miles away...
...Each spa is classified by the mineral content of its water and the diseases it is supposed to treat. Rheumatism is soothed at 55 stations; the spa at Encausse specializes in malaria; 27 other places cater to specific circulatory diseases such as heart trouble (Bourbon-Lancy), high blood pressure (Evian) and inflamed veins (Luxeuil...
...Vatican in Rome, as the President's personal representative to talk and work for peace in Europe before all hell breaks loose this spring, will go Myron Charles Taylor, 65-year-old retired head of United States Steel Corp., most recently chairman of the Evian conference on international refugees...
...keep it . . . with no thought for the world that crowds steadily in upon this would-be tight little island." He was in Spain when Franco drove to the Mediterranean in April 1938, when Barcelona fell. He visited Austria during the savage Jew-baiting that followed the Anschluss, attended the Evian Conference and pours scorn on it: "To the best of my knowledge and belief, no Jew who has escaped from the hell of life in Germany owes anything whatsoever to this meeting...