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...room would be a simple rectangle, half of the seats set in stadium fashion, the other half on elevators capable of being shifted from proscenium style into a second position, making space for the open platform stage (sketch No. 4). Shortly after this breakthrough, Bob Chapman introduced M. Michel St. Denis, noted French producer and theater expert whom the University had asked to advise on the design concept. We spent many profitable hours exchanging theories and ideas. St. Denis was sympathetic with our views, but emphasized "concentration of the audience toward the place of action." We came to the conclusion...
Nigeria's Theophilus Okonkwo, Uganda's Andrew Amar and Togo's Michel Ayih were among the first 1,000 students to arrive in Russia after the Communists began wholesale recruiting of African students three years ago. Turning up in Frankfurt last week, they told reporters that they and scores of others were leaving Moscow "disgusted" at Communist pressure. "Students from all over Africa and the Near East," they said, "are finding in Moscow that they are merely being used as agents of Soviet power politics." They said that students from 14 African countries met secretly in Moscow...
...with rocks, a ragged line of police chased after them, firing from the hip: all that prevented a massacre comparable to South Africa's Sharpeville (TIME, April 4) was the cops' bad aim. Circling unhappily in the background, Lumumba's Red-lining press adviser, Frenchman Serge Michel, passed a one-word judgment on the whole affair: "Maladroit...
...surrounded by a growing coterie of Red-lining advisers. Besides the Congo's latter-day Madame de Stael. handsome Leftist Andree Blouin, who has volunteered her way into the most intimate Congo affairs (TIME, Aug. 15). Lumumba relies heavily on a Frenchman of Polish extraction named Serge Michel. Michel, until recently an aide to Algerian Rebel Leader Ferhat Abbas, is a radio and press "expert" who, in between polishing up Lumumba's speeches, last week was broadcasting appeals to the citizens of Leopoldville to spy on their neighbors and root out "saboteurs...
Last week Premier Michel Debré rose in the French Assembly and proclaimed that the time had come to crack down on the home distillers. He had found it impossible to police more than 2,100,000 Frenchmen holding home-distilling permits; in some departments, there is a home still for every other adult male, with a gallon and a half of illegal booze produced for every gallon distilled under legal limitations. Furthermore, the ocean of homemade booze was killing too many Frenchmen, he argued. "In the past 14 years,'' said Debré, "total deaths from alcoholism have...