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Nuclear techniques are obviously impossible in the present densely populated Canal Zone. Bypassing the locks and widening the main Gaillard Cut by conventional methods would cost about $2 billion, would require shutting down the canal for only twelve days over the entire construction span. Whichever route is chosen, a new sea-level canal could be ready for operation within 10 years from the day that work starts...
Died. S. (for Samuel) Palmer Gaillard, 103, oldest member of the American Bar Association, a practicing lawyer for 78 years; in Mobile...
Leading candidates who failed of a majority the first time would have to run next Sunday, and in this category were ex-Premiers Mollet, Georges Bidault, Paul Reynaud and Felix Gaillard. Even though there was a big Communist vote, most of their leaders failed to get elected even in safe constituencies, and must face runoffs where other candidates will combine against them...
...contrary, the Radical party, which has put at its head the next-to-last Premier of the Fourth Republic, Felix Gaillard (not exactly a symbol of renovation), has remained faithful to its own tradition of tolerant ambiguity by deciding to vote yes by a bare majority, with the intention nevertheless of disapproving most of what has been done since May! The Communists, of course, are uncompromisingly hostile to de Gaulle...
...West German marks at the rate of several million dollars a day. The balance-of-payments deficit was running $40 million a month, and all that stood between internally prosperous France and international bankruptcy was the remains (about $500 million) of the $650 million in foreign loans which the Gaillard government negotiated in Washington last January. Only by restricting its imports could France hope to regain solvency, and such action threatened to delay the creation of the six-nation Western Europe Common Market...