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...FORTNIGHT ago, while telephoning in a report from Algiers, TIME'S Paris Bureau Chief Frank White interrupted himself to announce that gunfire had broken out near by and that he was off to investigate. For White, who foresightedly flew into Algiers as soon as he heard of the sacking of Paratrooper Jacques Massu, the next few days were full of minor irritations, major risks...
Sleep in Peace? Defense Secretary Thomas Gates, red-eyed and dead tired after days of testifying and nights of homework, even ran into a snag over Senate confirmation of his appointment. Gates had upset the Senate Armed Services Committee by testifying last fortnight that the U.S. had reduced its estimate of future Russian missile production by judging Russian "intentions" instead of "capabilities." One day last week Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson announced casually that Gates's nomination was going to be held up because "several Senators" had questioned it (actually, only Wyoming Democrat Joe O'Mahoney, recovering from...
Destroyed on the Ground? The newest military contribution to the defense debate came from the Strategic Air Command's General Thomas Power, who flew in from his headquarters at Omaha to address the American Legion's National Security Commission in Washington. Fortnight ago Power warned that the Russians with a force of just 300 missiles -half intercontinental ballistic missiles and half intermediate-range ballistic missiles-could destroy the U.S.'s 100-odd air bases at home and overseas and "virtually wipe out our entire nuclear strike capability within a span of 30 minutes...
...variety of music, although the fact is sometimes obscured in the blasts of publicity for a few glamour names. Performing groups range from the distinguished, amateur Dessoff Choir, specializing in a cappella Renaissance music, to the new, still uneven Contemporary Baroque Ensemble. Some attractions on display in the last fortnight...
Confidence Man. When the FBI first began hinting last fortnight that ex-Convict Spears might still be alive and in hiding after duping a friend into boarding the National Airlines plane, Radio Newsman Barker called Mrs. Spears, got her to agree to an interview. In that first innocuous interview, Frances Spears insisted that if her husband were alive he "would be here with me and the babies." But if Barker did not at that time get much of a story, he got something else: Mrs. Spears's confidence. She named him her "press adviser," let him stay...