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...take over the French government. In southern France, the Communists had seized power in majorities, but De Gaulle's well-schooled lieutenants eased them out with a mininum of bloodshed. De Gaulle went out of his way to insult the Communists publicly, no matter how bravely they lad fought in the Resistance. In Toulouse, when a Communist in proletarian overalls casually introduced himself, De Gaulle snapped: "Stand to attention when you are speaking to a superior officer." When De Gaulle finally entered Paris amid jubilant cheers, he was all calculation. "How far have you got with the purge?" were...
Violence continued, too, on New York subways (TIME, June 12). About 25 Negro youths boarded a subway in the Washington Heights area. Led by a lad in a silk top hat, some of them turned on Pharmacist William Greene, 51, dragged him from his seat, beat him, took his $85 wrist watch and a wallet containing $100. Fifteen other passengers, terrified and outnumbered, watched helplessly. In Harlem, about 15 Negro teenagers, including several girls, found 57-year-old Actor Julian Zalewski alone in a subway car, picked him up, dropped him to the floor, rifled his pockets, took...
...whom Beauchamp calls on to defend him, is the very picture of the well-meaning but ineffectual white moderate who is reluctant to act on his convictions. Faulkner's belief that the coming generation carries the burden and opportunity of reconciliation is personified in Chick Mallison, the white lad who digs up the evidence that clears Beauchamp. Chick is torn between the tradition that expects him to hate Beauchamp for his prideful independence, and his own grudging, slowly growing respect for Lucas as a man. More explicitly than any other of Faulkner's books, Intruder in the Dust...
Testing In the barbershop of Kansas City's Muehlebach Hotel, a 13-year-old Negro boy, Eugene Young, hopped into a chair, opened his fist to display two $1 bills, and ordered a haircut. Without hesitating, Barber Lloyd Soper covered the lad with a white apron, took out his clippers and went to work...
Jail & a Promise. That's where Prime Minister H. Kamuzu Banda comes in, and that's where the difference lies. A compact gnome of a man, Banda showed determination as a lad of twelve by walking the 1,000 miles from Nyasaland to South Africa, by working in the gold mines there and by saving some of his earnings to pay his passage to the U.S. Methodists helped get him to the U.S. and put him through high school; he went on to the University of Chicago and Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tenn. He practiced medicine...