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...unseeing. The effect has increased his air of austere remoteness. Outside his family, there is no man who can honestly call himself De Gaulle's friend, and anyone who strives to achieve uninvited intimacy with him is brusquely repulsed. On a flight to Algiers a few weeks ago, mercurial L??on Delbecque, one of the organizers of the insurrection that led to De Gaulle's return to power, plumped himself down in the seat opposite the general. Hastily, De Gaulle summoned his trusted military aide Colonel Gaston de Bonneval for a whispered conversation. When De Bonneval defensively?and audibly?remarked...
...nation which has celebrated its 400th anniversary and which proudly calls Bogota, its leading city, "the Athens of America," inaugurated a new-old President last week. He was scholarly, able Dr. Alfonso L??pez, President during 1934-38, now returning to office after the four-year interval decreed by a constitutional nonsuccession clause...
Banker turned social reformer, Dr. L??pez opened his first term with a new deal program of public works which changed the faces of Colombia's cities. His new term, into which he stepped fresh from a 26-day visit in the U.S., opens with a new deal in U.S.-Colombian relations which may change the appearance of Colombia's hinterlands...
...L??d?: wooj...
...Fernand L??ger served three years as a stretcher bearer in the War, figured out in his own mind the sort of painting he wanted to do. Humanity appalled him. For more than 20 years he has been at work making confused, elaborate patterns of gears, wheels, lamps, streaks and segments of color, at about $2.50 a square inch. Tycoons and esthetes have paid that price, for all Leger abstractions have a technical slickness comforting to men of affairs, all make excellent decorations...