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Last week's Russian journey is perhaps De Gaulle's grandest gesture-and quite likely his most valuable. Since 1945, when he was declared odd man out at Yalta by Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin, De Gaulle has put France back on the map as a major world power. He ended the debilitating war in Algeria and added a new dimension to Western handling of the "Third World"; he blew life into the Common Market, even if he chilled the aspirations of those who saw it as a way to political unity on the Continent. In one fell swoop...
...from high school with honors in speech, soon afterward decided "to try Hollywood for a minute." The minute lasted for a couple of years, but she never made it as an actress, and at 20 she returned to make the rounds of the New York producers while working at odd jobs "for carfare and stockings." One of the jobs took her to the research department of Jonah Goldstein's 1945 mayoral campaign, and there she met Jack Javits...
...Biddeford. Today, only eight cities in the U.S. and Canada still have Toonervilles* clang-clanging through the streets. But in odd meadows and on discarded old cross-country rails, U.S. trolley buffs have put some 300 relics back into mint condition and occasional service. The revival started in Maine back in 1939. For old times' sake, three Bostonians rode up to Biddeford one Fourth of July to be aboard the last run of the Biddeford & Saco Street Railroad's Car 31. At the end of the line, they spontaneously passed the hat among the passengers, added enough...
Nearly three-fourths of the 90-odd members of the national party's Central Committee have not been mentioned by press or radio for the past six months, and more and more China watchers are coming to believe that the reported purges reflect a far wider struggle to succeed ailing Mao Tse-tung. The faction currently in the ascendancy seems to be using its opportunity to junk allies of the losers, but among the gainers almost certainly is Defense Minister Lin Piao. Travelers recently returning to Hong Kong from China report having seen posters declaring "Long Live Chairman...
...odd mix of disciplines gives a Shadow Faculty one advantage. Often all of its members get together, they do every week, they have some the most intensive and wildest on educational research that the school has ever seen. Last winter, fact, the debating got so intensive at the Faculty seriously discussed in the idea of disbanding and forgetting the whole thing...