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...Unfamiliar. The vote was also a testament to the remarkable staying powers of a mild, methodical leather merchant and provincial politician from mid-France who, last February, was summoned from obscurity to accept the perishable honor of providing France with her 17th government since the Liberation. Antoine Pinay is a small (5 ft. 7 in., 155 lbs.), trig man who, in unguarded moments, resembles Charlie Butterworth with a mustache. He might be the man the French lexicographers meant when they defined petit bourgeois in the dictionary-respectable, thrifty and discreet; at home with account books but uneasy with the great...
...centuries past, the fear of pirates was always uppermost in the thoughts of Dutch merchant skippers sailing their heavy-laden East Indiamen along the coasts of Africa. No such grim foreboding clutched the heart of Johannes Van Delft, master of the tiny (265 tons) Dutch coaster Combinatie, as he put out of Tangier Harbor into the Strait of Gibraltar, bound for Malta, one day last month, laden with $100,000 worth of U.S. cigarettes. It was the 20th century; the sky was blue overhead; ten kegs of good Holland beer were stowed below, to complement the vessel's small...
Chaim Weizmann of Motol. Russia, son of Osher the timber merchant and Rachel, stood before the Knesset in Jerusalem, taking the oath of office as Israel's first President in 2,000 years. In pain, his eyes seeing dimly through cataracts, he stumbled over the biblical phraseology in his Hebrew address, interjected: "I can't go on." But go on he did, to the end of the address and for almost four lonely and physically painful years afterward. One morning last week, a few days before his 78th birthday, his heart stopped, and Chaim Weizmann, the man, died...
Died. Chaim Weizmann, 77, Russian-born son of a village timber merchant who became a world-famous chemist, leader of world Zionism and first President of modern Israel; in Rehovoth, Israel (see FOREIGN NEWS...
Died. Gilbert Frankau, 68, onetime soldier, tobacco merchant turned novelist (Christopher Strong, Farewell Romance, The Dangerous Years) and war poet (The Guns); after long illness; in Hove, England...