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...been a staunch Gaullist ever since. Fourquet was an air force brigadier in Algeria a year ago at the time of the Generals Revolt. To make clear his loyalty, he painted a huge cross of Lorraine on his personal aircraft. Shuttling busily between Oran and Algiers in the fortnight since he was appointed commander in chief in Algeria, Fourquet has devised a flexible strategy aimed at breaking up S.A.O. units and driving them into hiding in the countryside. He is also counting on the fact that the S.A.O. is gradually but surely losing the confidence of Algeria's Europeans...
...Communist side, Red Prince Souphanouvong had been gone for a fortnight from his headquarters in Khang Khay to celebrate the Buddhist New Year festival with some villagers. Two Red military commanders stopped off in Peking on their way to Moscow. Soviet Ambassador Aleksandr Abramov was going on leave after three years in Southeast Asia, hoping for a new assignment...
...almost none of the slums are there such simple amenities as running water, electric lights or garbage collection. Fortnight ago in Bogota, rats attacked a nine-month-old baby girl left alone on a pallet and nibbled her to death. The police rarely intervene. Brazil's favelas breed a notorious outlaw called the malandro-an all-purpose con man, pimp, thief and murderer. Of 5,000 country girls who emigrate to Santiago's slums each month, 500 end up in brothels...
...last fortnight, Cartoonist Batchelor, whose personal driving record is well-nigh unblemished, finished the 1,001st contribution to his crusade, drove out for a weekend at his country home in Connecticut. There, behind the wheel of his 1950 Jaguar sedan (Conn, license ITU-for Inviting the Undertaker), with his wife at his side. Cartoonist Batchelor ran head-on into real-life inspiration for his 1,002nd traffic cartoon...
...expert," he said dryly. "We have been turning more to collections of Leonardo da Vinci models-something I can understand." At many meetings, too, attendance was smaller than last year; by discontinuing its free lunch, A.T. & T. cut attendance from 20,000 last year to 3,200 a fortnight...