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...Moscow trip went off with bands and bunting, and fortnight ago Gomulka returned with a number of small concessions, but no sense of victory. Thousands of Poles, happy and even a little surprised to see him back, jammed the Warsaw station to welcome him, chant and toss bouquets. But to the chanting throng Gomulka would only say: "We went to Moscow and talked to the Soviet leaders as equals, a very important thing for us. We put an end to the great differences between Soviet words and Soviet deeds. Polish-Soviet friendship can now proceed without serious obstacles...
...fortnight ago, at a huge rally in front of Rio's War Ministry, the November Front hailed Lott as "the general of the people" and presented him with a $5,000 gold-hilted sword. The rally brought on a storm of opposition charges against General Lott as a man of dangerous ambition. Last week President Kubitschek acted to cope with both the November Front and the outcries against it. First he issued an order forbidding military officers to mix into politics. As an example, the government placed a top November Front leader, Lieut. Colonel Nemo Canabarro, under barracks arrest...
Last week the groans were rising to a new crescendo. In the first 230,000-acre sale four weeks ago, 23 oil companies paid $27.5 million for leases, plus a 12½% royalty on every barrel of oil produced. A fortnight ago the Navajos got $3.2 million for a second 82,200-acre block of land. Last week a third and final 158,505 acres went on sale, brought $2.9 million and pushed the total Navajo take to $33.6 million...
...with his friend and mentor, 89-year-old Arturo Toscanini; in the crash of an Italian airliner shortly after its take-off from Paris. At 25, Cantelli was the youngest conductor ever to lead Milan's famed La Scala orchestra, of which he was appointed permanent conductor a fortnight ago. Toscanini's fond verdict: "He conducts like...
...time most correspondents got to Port Said last fortnight, the fighting was virtually over-and Paris-Match Photographer-Reporter Jean Roy, 34, had the situation well in hand. The big (6 ft., 190 Ibs.), handsome Frenchman (real name: Yves Leleu) was living up to his legend as the fire-eating knight-errant of war journalism. In the 24 hours since he had landed with the first French ground troops, Roy had taken over two jeeps and a Chevrolet truck, daubed each with a new license plate, "Balzac 00-24" (the phone number of Paris-Match), and whirled through a typical...