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...Jolt for the Premier. But even before Bidault left for home, the clouds drifted back across the sun. Of course, he told newsmen, France still wants revisions in the treaty, one way or other, and it will not even attempt to push the treaty through the National Assembly until the French revisions have been "redrafted and accepted" by the other five powers. "A great step forward could be taken." said Bidault with perhaps more candor than he intended, "if France were in a position to make up her mind as to what she really wants to do." The fact...
...Gaulle's continuing intransigence seemed to jolt René Mayer out of the notion that he could appease everybody. The Premier replied to De Gaulle at week's end with the most spirited defense he has ever made of the European Army ideal. EDC offers France, he warned, the only feasible way of getting both the security of West German military strength and safeguards against a revival of aggressive German militarism. "Who," he asked, "will take the responsibility of leaving France alone in the face of mounting dangers...
...Lilienthal went into private enterprise as a consultant to Lazard Fréres & Co., New York investment bankers. (His chief current interest: management of Philadelphia's Attapulgus Minerals & Chemical Corp.) This week he had a new book on the market with a title that, at first sight, might jolt his old New Deal disciples. The title: Big Business: A New Era (Harper...
...Flood. After such a quiet play, Wilder's rambunctious The Skin of Our Teeth proved to be a jolt-so much so that some 75 backers promptly backed away. It was a sort of Hellzapoppin with brains, the story of Everyman (Mr. Antrobus) and the whole human race. Its action spread over 5,000 years, took in the Flood, the Ice Age and Armageddon. "Our Town" says Wilder, "is the life of the family seen from a telescope five miles away. The Skin of Our Teeth is the destiny of the whole human group seen from a telescope...
economy. Future shakeouts may temporarily jolt that confidence, yet it is based on a lot of solid fact...