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The literary event of the week took place in Paris, where Dans un Mois, Dans un An (In a Month, In a Year), the third novel in four years by Franchise (Bonjour, Tristesse) Sagan, 22, appeared, to the tune of a phenomenal first printing of 200,000 copies. Dedicated to...
A hooting tugboat nosed up to an odd-looking 4,200-ton contraption in West Germany's Audorf shipyards (on the Kiel Canal) last week, made towlines fast and headed to sea, outward bound for the Persian Gulf, 6,800 miles away. No ordinary barge, the contraption bristled with...
Eager to confer the global franchise upon benighted nationalists in Berlin, leather-jacketed World Citizen Garry Davis fluttered from Canada to Le Havre, drifted into West Germany, got netted at Oebisfelde by East German border guards after he flashed his credentials (his do-it-yourself World Passport 000.001). Bounced back...
All the tensions generated by Canada's historic postwar rise vibrated through the House of Commons one day in May 1956, when the Liberal government's economic czar, Trade and Commerce Minister Howe, brought in a bill to ensure the construction of a gas pipeline from Alberta to...
Inheritance Tacks. In Tulsa. all buses of the Tulsa City Lines, which in a recent election lost its franchise to a new line, carried newly installed signs: "Why wait on a bus? Next time call a taxi."