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...crucial phase in the development of France's atomic arsenal. From the four explosions in the Sahara in 1960-61 and subsequent tests, the French developed a 60-kiloton Abomb, but it is so bulky that France's 40 or 50 force de frappe Mirage IV jet bombers are able to carry only one apiece. What the French hope to achieve in the new tests is a smaller, powerful warhead to ride atop the intermediate-range missile for which silos are already being dug in France's Haute-Provence. The French timetable calls for the missiles...
...section of Lyndon Johnson's 1966 Civil Rights Bill has raised more of a ruckus than Title IV, the wide-ranging ban on racial discrimination in the sale or rental of housing. One reason is that civil rights bills have never previously hit Northerners so close to home. From the moment it was drafted, a powerful coalition of builders, real estate men and politicians of all persuasions objected to the housing measure, and Southern civil rights foes viewed their discomfiture with undisguised glee. "For the first time," chortled North Carolina's Democratic Senator Sam Ervin, "we have...
Last week, as the House Judiciary Committee took up the bill, it was Title IV that got gored-while the other sections of the measure* passed with ease. First, several Republicans and moderate Northern Democrats sought to strike out the housing clause altogether, figuring that it was doomed anyway by warnings from Senate G.O.P. Leader Everett Dirksen and House Minority Leader Jerry Ford that they consider it "absolutely unconstitutional" and will fight to the end to defeat it. Title IV was barely rescued (17 to 15) by a curious coalition of Northern liberals who were committed to the housing provision...
...Keyes's story is about King Philip IV of Spain, who was born in 1605, died in 1665, and presided, an irresolute, unassertive and undistinguished monarch, over the sunset of the Spanish empire. There is not much story to tell, but Mrs. Keyes stuffs the holes in her plot with dates, names, panoply, history lessons, fashion shows, and archly veiled allusions to sex at the castle level...
...ailing Henry IV (Joseph Sommer) first enters clothed in rich blue, accompanied by monks singing a Kyrie (sloppily). He kneels at a priodieu and delivers his great Sleep soliloquy competently enough to make us look forward to his scene with Prince Hal. When that comes, Hal (John Cunningham) takes the hand of the sleeping king and kisses it -- a good touch. But then the director has turned the confrontation into a screaming nightmare. The king, who will be dead in a few minutes, gets out of bed, yells and lurches about like a Hercules; and Hal responds with a torrent...