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Brooklyn-born Karnow set sail for Europe aboard a coal freighter a week after his graduation from Harvard in 1947. Since then, he has returned to the U.S. only for short visits. Karnow studied French at the Sorbonne and European politics at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques in Paris. Afterwards he did welfare work and freelance writing before he joined TIME'S Paris Bureau in 1951. A U.S. expatriate who loves France, Karnow listened, week after week, as young Frenchmen and Frenchwomen indicted not only their elders but their ancestors...
...philosophy, literature and history majors appear as candidates for a handful of university teaching jobs; openings for scientists outnumber applicants. Complained a government official recently: "We need seven scientists for one philosopher, and we're being supplied with the contrary." A 27-year-old graduate of the topflight Institut d'Etudes Politiques went six months before finding his first job, finally got work as a bank clerk, eventually drifted into journalism, earns less than $200 monthly. "In America you can make money doing something you don't like," he complains. "Here you usually have to do something...
...morning of the day that I was taken into custody by the Volkspolizei of the East zone, I had worked in the Ost-Europa Institut. My pockets were well filled with notes, including references from the Russian Encyclopedia...
Economics. The West German Industrie Institut made East German mouths water by publishing the facts & figures of West Germany's boom. Bonn's gold and foreign-currency reserves are at an alltime high ($1.4 billion), at least twice those of France. West Germans are eating better, building more homes (440,000 last year) than at any other time since...
Four cardinals, 21 archbishops and 79 bishops gathered last week in Paris' Institut Catholique. It was the first full meeting of France's Roman Catholic hierarchy since 1907, when vigorous anticlericalism had placed the church on the defensive, deprived it of state support...