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...Joxe escaped to Algeria to carry on the resistance, helped plan the North African landings. Later, he was France's ambassador to Moscow (1952-55); as ambassador to Bonn in 1956, he helped negotiate the Saar treaty by which France and Germany took the first big leap toward economic integration. In 1959, after De Gaulle had returned to power, Joxe became Secretary of State to Premier Debré, presided over far-reaching government reforms. According to friends, Joxe was disappointed that he had not become De Gaulle's Foreign Minister, but he has performed so brilliantly...
When Saarinen died at 51 last September, he left a portfolio of projects that include much of his most daring work.† Of these, the CBS building was unique in Saarinen's eyes because "it will be the simplest skyscraper statement in New York," a "vertical leap of masonry and glass." In a "return to solid, massive strength," the structure will be made of granite-clad reinforced concrete instead of structural steel, rising without a break in line from the green-granite faced, sunken plaza surrounding it. Triangular columns carrying wiring, heating and air ducts will rise...
...element. He pioneered easy-payment plans, became Japan's biggest advertiser (his ad budget last year: $18 million), flooded his dealers with sales aids. His domain swelled to 89 plants, employing 49,000 workers. From $17 million in 1951, Matsushita's sales made an astounding leap to $486 million last year, and in five more years he expects them to pass the billion dollar mark...
OuHhinking the Bar. So far this season, Uelses' timing has been flawless. "It was a dream vault," recalls the University of Maryland's vaulting coach, George Butler, who watched Uelses smash Bragg's record in Washington. "The only perfect leap I ever saw. I'm sure he would have made it if the bar was at 16 ft. 4 in.-with a metal pole or any other kind." Rangy (6 ft. 1 in., 172 Ibs.) and well-knit, Uelses runs the 100-yd. dash in 9.7 sec., needs only an abbreviated, 104-ft. approach (standard...
...leader of the conservative faction of the Chinese politburo. While on a trip to Albania in May 1959, he secretly told Nikita Khrushchev of his strong opposition to Mao's agricultural commune system. With Khrushchev's encouragement, Peng returned to China and denounced Mao's Great Leap Forward as "petty bourgeois fanaticism." At a meeting of the Chinese Communist Party's Central Committee in August 1959, Peng said that the communes had been set up without adequate preparation, scored the blunders of the system, criticized the use of soldiers for farm labor, and denounced the party...