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...Belgium's Gaston Roelants, 28: the 3,000-meter steeplechase in 8 min. 26.4 sec., clipping an impressive 3.2 sec. off his own 1963 world record; in Brussels...
Prewar Symbol. Whether he would have anyone to run against was unexpectedly thrown in doubt last week. Suddenly dashed were the hopes of Socialist Candidate Gaston Defferre, who had boldly tried to forge a federation of the socialist left and Catholic center parties, thus building a potent opposition to the Gaullists out of the splintered factions that still plague French politics (TIME, June 18). After a week of bitter negotiations, representatives of the center and left parties found themselves hopelessly at odds over all the old divisions that rent the Fourth Republic: state aid to schools, nationalization, relations with...
Leftists & Centrists. But it was the cheering that pleased De Gaulle most, and the roaring crowds seemed to energize him. It all boded ill for De Gaulle's only serious presidential opponent, Marseille's Socialist Mayor Gaston Defferre, over whom le grand Charles holds a massive 4-to-l advantage in public-opinion soundings...
...Among the best known: Isamu Noguchi, Josef Albers, Fritz Glarner, Gaston Lachaise, Louis Bouché, Naum Gabo, Yasuo Kuniyoshi and William Zorach. Mexican Muralist Diego Rivera was commissioned to paint the main fresco for the RCA Building's lobby, had his mural removed in 1933 when he inserted the face of Lenin...
...Gaullists were itching to defeat the general's only announced opponent in the presidential elections later this year, Socialist Gaston Defferre, who was running for re-election as mayor of Marseille. But Defferre triumphed handsomely and proudly hailed his victory as a "stinging defeat" for that "historic personage" in Paris. It was hardly that. The nationwide results were really little more than a tweak of the De Gaulle nose. However inept as vote getters his minions may be, De Gaulle himself remains undisputably the most popular man in France and virtually a certain bet to succeed himself as President...