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...cried that EDC "would sunder France from the French Union." Charles de Gaulle, who dislikes both EDC and Mendès with equal intensity, announced that "a surge comes from the depths that will protect France's independence." But as the week wore on, the answering fire grew louder. "If France fails to ratify EDC," editorialized the conservative Figaro, "she will find herself on the road to Prague. All else is sophistry, self-deceit and imposture...
...worst of Hoxsey's method, say the cancer researchers, is that he draws cancer victims away from conventional treatment, making eventual cure impossible. But Hoxsey goes right on making new friends. No friend is louder or more loyal than Pennsylvania State Senator J ohn J. Haluska, who plumped for Hoxsey after his 35-year-old sister took the tonic last summer. "I don't care whether it's cough syrup or pure mountain water." she told him. "That's what I owe my life...
When Pianist Oscar Peterson and his trio gave a fast-fingered version of Tenderly sprinkled with suave dissonances, the modernist crowd was ready to call it the high point of the festival. But the younger set shrieked louder when hollow-cheeked Gerry Mulligan bellowed and coaxed The Lady Is a Tramp through his big baritone sax. The concert finally ended after midnight with a 20-man jam session that sent the strangest sounds ever heard in Newport floating up to the stars...
Pray for Sam Bell. Across the street in the Windmill, Sam Bell and his customers listened for several nights with mounting distaste. "It got louder and louder," says Sam. "I couldn't even hear the girls when they called the orders." Finally, one night last week, one of the Windmill's customers made a suggestion, and Sam Bell suited action to the word...
Templer's greatest asset was his unsuspected humanity. He would drop in on a Malay wedding and drink to the health of the bride; sometimes he staggered subordinates by doffing his mask of harshness and leading them ("Louder . . . louder") in some ribald army ballad. Once when a Malay woman complained that her policeman-husband had stopped her allowances, Templer replied in person. Within days the policeman reformed...