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...sits in the Résidence Générale at Rabat today is General Augustin Léon Guillaume, 56, a forthright and plain-spoken man with a brilliant military record in two world wars. A doctor's son from the Alps, Guillaume speaks Italian, German, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Moorish Arabic, Berber; he was a close friend of the late Marshal de Lattre de Tassigny, hero of Indo-China...
...Albert C. Wedemeyer, retired lieutenant general who is now a vice president of Avco Manufacturing Corp., announced that he favors "the able and forthright Senator from Ohio, Robert A. Taft...
...Alfredo, is a fine actor with a big, impressive voice. Nelly Coradda, in the juicy role of Violetta, is devastatingly feminine. The settings are all effective, particularly the sparkling fountain where Violetta and Alfredo first acknowledge their love. Except for a few excessively sentimental scenes, the movie is a forthright attempt to reproduce the great moments of a great opera...
...troublesome internal issue-the struggle for dominance between the champions of strategic v. tactical air power-though Van himself is a veteran tactical air officer. Contrary to the fears of the Air Force that he was not going to be forceful enough for the job, he has been a forthright and effective advocate of the case for air power-e.g., having warned the nation last fall of mounting Russian strength, he got the Joint Chiefs of Staff (of which he is a member) to approve an increase in Air Force strength from 95 to 143 wings...
Time for Reminders. To Argentines, the speech was a breath-taking turnabout. Evita Peron's newspaper Democracia rose loyally to the new challenge by delivering a forthright attack on meat: "It will wreck your liver, undermine your health, poison you with proteins and provoke serious digestive disturbances." But the presidential conversion gave the Radical Party weekly Adelante a first-class chance to trounce the regime...