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...offering Algeria a free choice of three alternatives-independence, integration with France, or home rule under France's wing-France's President Charles de Gaulle had conceded the principle of self-determination for which the rebel Front de Libération Nationale claimed to be fighting. The result was that most of the world could no longer see any reason for further bloodshed in Algeria...
...last week Pope John himself, on the occasion of an ad-lib address to some 10,000 pilgrims and tourists, just happened to draw attention to a major doctrinal difference that ranges Roman Catholicism and Orthodoxy on one side and Protestantism on the other. Extolling the role of the Virgin Mary in Roman Catholic theology, the Pontiff, while not mentioning Protestants by name, lamented the "many who also hold to the name of Christians who have forgotten the Madonna and left her outside their door...
...lib story was principally intended as a lightener at a heavyweight symposium on basic scientific research. But it served to point up as serious a message as he has ever delivered. "In my public service," said he, "I have found myself increasingly involved with problems and policies affected by the growth* and impact of science and technology-[now] the cornerstones of American security and American welfare." In short, the day is at hand when U.S. science and the U.S. Government have firmly joined hands to plot the nation's future...
Ultimate Compliment. By last week, Pamela Mason, sometime actress (The Upturned Glass), authoress (A Lady Possessed), had carved such a successful career on her ad-lib shows with her sharp tongue that Comedian Jack Benny paid her the ultimate compliment: a well-rehearsed part as an "ad-lib" panelist in his TV satire on the subject. The show itself proved mainly that Pamela is no straight player. "I've always had a tendency to talk too much," she concedes. "I may as well enjoy it." That she does...
...moved by heartfelt ache over the fate of children in divorces (she is writing a novel about them entitled Hollywood Be Thy Name). Others seem to be just a piece-of-mind psychologizing. Last year she went on the air with a Los Angeles TV show called Ad Lib. To the fearful joy of sponsors, Pamela lambasted monogamy as "unnatural," defended premarital sex relations because "it's absurd to stop just when you're most interested," and called for legalization of homosexuality because "it's nobody's business what two adult males do with their...