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...Salan if he were going to surrender. Curtly the general answered, "No!" Weeping, Lucienne Salan tied a silk scarf about her husband's neck in a farewell gesture. Generals Challe and Zeller returned to France as prisoners; Generals Salan and Jouhaud, with some 100 deserters from the ist Foreign Legion Paratroop Regiment, disappeared into the underground...
...Fresh Face. Kennedy named Connally Secretary of the Navy-and it turned out to be a first-rate appointment. As a naval officer during World War II, Connally had served as a fighter-plane director aboard the carriers Essex and Bennington, won the Bronze Star and Legion of Merit. In the Pentagon, he fought hard for Navy programs he considered worthy and scrubbed those he considered impractical (he concluded that after the new U.S.S. Enterprise there should be no more nuclear aircraft carriers). Deciding to return to Texas, he carried with him President Kennedy's respect, and L.B.J...
There could be no successful appeal to reason. "You're realistic, Mayor," pleaded a delegate from the Jefferson County Women's Service Legion, "and you must know that integration is coming ultimately whether we like it or not." Snapped Hanes: "That's your opinion madam...
...weekly, Film Critic Moira Walsh last week anathematized Hollywood's biblical epics as "disedifying and even antireligious," and called King of Kings "the culmination of a gigantic fraud perpetuated by the film industry on the moviegoing public." Noting that the film has been criticised by the Roman Catholic Legion of Decency as "theologically, historically and scripturally inaccurate," she adds: "Christ is there as a physical presence, but His spirit is absent . . . There is not the slightest possibility that anyone will derive from the film any meaningful insight into what Christ's life and sufferings signify...
...laude high school graduate, Joyce will shoulder a stiff scholastic load at Holy Cross (subjects: Greek, Latin, German, English, history, theology). He will pay his way by pitching, and he expects to improve on a four-year high school and American Legion record of 59 victories (including seven no-hitters) and 12 losses. The big leagues can wait. "If the arm holds out," says Dick Joyce, "the money should still be there...