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Still on the mend after a heart attack that laid him low in Cairo last February, the Ago Khan, 77, looking surprisingly chipper, enjoyed a sunny outing at Paris' Longchamp race track with his handsome French-born wife, the Begum...
...wealthy Rothschilds, Mayer served with De Gaulle in North Africa during World War II. Later, as chief spokesman for the hard-shelled North African colons, it was he who delivered the crucial, brutal Assembly speech which brought down his fellow Radical Socialist and arch-political foe, Premier Pierre Mendès-France (TIME, Feb. 14). He is a sufficiently good European to satisfy the Catholic M.R.P. members of Faure's coalition Cabinet, but he tempers his enthusiasm with enough pragmatic caution to satisfy even the Gaullists...
...manager who collaborated with the IBC in giving Vince Martinez a rough deal. Last week Helfand suspended his hearings and sailed for Europe. From Jacobs Beach to The Bronx, he left behind a mob of worried wise guys, convinced that this boxing commissioner meant business. They would have to mend their ways - at least for a while - or hang up their gloves. But there was no hope for any real change. By the nature of things, professional boxing was still the racket in which it is necessary to be a little stupid - and more than a little forgetful, especially...
...wants real leadership badly, and sometimes talks as though he would settle for a "strongman." When former Premier Mendès-France outlined a program to benefit youth last fall, he found a cautious but widespread response. Unfortunately, it didn't last. After Mendès' fall, France's younger generation slid back into collective indifference. Like his elders, the French youngster has come to believe in every-man-for-himself...
...Mendès sipped water and calmly waited for quiet. The new committee, he said, should reform the party machinery, start up a vigorous propaganda campaign in the provinces, prepare a platform of "five or six clear ideas" for the 1956 elections. "Our party has differences of opinion," he said, "but it wants to go forward, to remain a party of the left. Our duty is to respond to the drive for fresh ideas which has been awakened all over the country." The delegates broke into La Marseillaise...