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European NATO? After his failure at Brussels, Mendès had flown directly to Britain. Convinced that EDC would be killed by the French National Assembly, he hoped to enlist British support for his own alternative: a larger, looser European alliance in which Britain might participate. Over lunch, with Churchill and Eden, Mendès explained that he would keep some of the features of EDC-for instance, the plan for pooling arms production. He argued that his proposal...
...loneliness of defeat, he carried out his supreme decision. At the sound of the single shot, members of his family rushed into the unlocked room. On the bed lay Getulio Vargas, still holding a revolver in his stiffened hand while the patch of blood over his heart grew larger. His son Luthero, a physician, felt his pulse. With tears streaming down his cheeks, Luthero whispered: "Papa is dead...
Stalemate in Europe? The biggest and worst news concerned the parlous state of EDC. Whatever the Brussels Conference (see FOREIGN NEWS) or subsequent plastic surgery might salvage from the Mendés-France amendments, EDC's future was highly limited. From its beginning, EDC had two aspects. The larger was a long step toward European unity. As such, it represented the positive side of U.S. policy, the hope for a more rational and orderly world. EDC's other aspect was more modest: a device for making German rearmament palatable to French politicians. This objective was part...
...fact that the hydrogen bomb has turned out to be an even more hideous and destructive weapon than was planned and expected. It has now been discovered that in certain special cases the heat and blast may be no more than the percussion cap of a much larger phenomenon...
...Africa's blind, carnivorous driver ants move in endless, well-ordered columns flanked by their larger "officers," who lead and direct the march. Scouts in the van investigate likely targets and lead an "ant-sea" attack to devour everything living within reach. But for all their ferocity, the drivers die in direct sunlight. Forced to cross bare ground on a bright day, they quickly throw up earth to form a covered archway as protection, and march...