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...University policemen are taking a four-week course in pistol shooting and defensive tactics...
...myopic eyes squinting in the glare of Orly lights, President Charles de Gaulle emerged, majestic and tanned, from the jet that had brought him home after his four-week, ten-nation tour of South America. The general bore an odd assortment of presents: an Argentine pony (asked De Gaulle when the presentation was made: "What does it eat?"), a Bolivian trumpet, Chilean spurs, a Colombian gold cigar box encrusted with emeralds (he does not smoke), and a Uruguayan whip appropriately inscribed, "Strike hard against the enemies of France." The return received dutiful top coverage by the state-owned television network...
...enemies were legion, but none were so bitter as the tribesmen of the Djebel Druze, a rugged group of hills in southern Syria, where in 1954 revolt erupted after years of discontent. Shishekly, in a four-week campaign, crushed the Druzes, hammering their mountain strongholds with tanks, planes and artillery. The powerful Druze clan of the Ghazali took some of the heaviest casualties...
...closet these days. Bit by bit, holes are being pricked into it to permit some movement between the halves of Berlin. Last week Ulbricht's press agency announced that beginning Nov. 2, some 3,000,000 elderly East Germans will be allowed to cross the Wall for annual four-week visits to relatives in the West, and negotiations are nearly complete for yet wider visitor exchanges between the two Germanys...
...population, which had been shrinking before the war, has grown from 40 to 48 million, and the gross national product from $31 billion to $72 billion. Class feeling is being diminished by the embourgeoisement of the workers, more and more of whom reach a level of prosperity where a four-week vacation and a small car are the norm-although inflation and wretched housing still bedevil them...