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...Wasn't It Fun?" Instantly the fight became a free-for-all. Mme. Thorez (Jeannette Vermeerseh) screamed. Thorez, dabbing his bloody face with a handkerchief, tried to get up. His friends yelled "Agent provocateur!'' and "Hold him!" at Laurent; they attacked the group of flyers. A frantic Russian shouted "Nyet! Nyet!" A French major who tried to restore calm was tossed out into the gutter. Ambassador Bogomolov, safe in a corner, roared with laughter...
Political Talk. Since Gómez died and left Venezuela free to fight its way toward democracy, Blanco has been a sort of moderator and conciliator among political factions. He is without a politician's ruthlessness, and although he has been president of the now-dominant Acción Democrática party, he has little sympathy for the business of machine politics. Last year, as president of the Constituent Assembly where Venezuela's new democratic constitution was written, his calm reasonableness headed off many a crisis...
Luter, whose band plays for free drinks in smoky student hangouts in Paris' Latin Quarter, was the prize find of French Jazz Pedant Hugues (Le Jazz Hot) Panassie, who helped organize the festival. Panassié had been denounced in angry manifestoes for picking an unknown like Claude Luter to represent French jazz. Uninvited French big-timers like Violinist Stephane Grappelly (Quintette de Hot Club de France), after popping off in the Communist press, grumpily consented to appear at the festival's closing session...
...Athens, press officers of the U.S. Embassy and the American Mission for Aid denied correspondents' charges that Greece had no free press. "There is as real a freedom of the press in Greece today," said the official statement, "as there is in the U.S." It was an overstatement. The same day Athens' military governor arrested two editors of the Socialist weekly Mahi. Their offense: printing a clemency petition from political prisoners, and an editorial deploring the execution of former ELAS guerrillas...
Possibly. But chiefly to help him think about and care about his world. People living today in the U.S. and other parts of the free world are engaged in a great historical experiment; they are faced with the challenge of establishing and extending the first democratic civilization. For them, news has a meaning that it did not have for plain people in the days of Pericles or Pitt. The decisions of the 20th Century rest with the people. To act, they have to know and to care...