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Palms & Paratroopers. Impressive as the present wave of Moslem enthusiasm for integration is, there are staggering difficulties involved. On a one-man, one-vote basis, Algeria's Moslems would send more than 100 Deputies to the National Assembly in Paris, and they would effectively control political power in Algeria itself. If salaries, social security and family allotments were equalized with those of Metropolitan France, it would cost millions of dollars. Who would pay, and with what...
...blowoff comes when Catherine refuses to be a one-man woman and insists on reserving her weekends for an old admirer. "I don't belong to anybody." says Catherine bitterly, meaning, as she unconsciously meant at the beginning of the affair, that she belongs to herself. A chastened Toni finally gives her up, wishing perhaps that he had caught just what she meant in the first place...
...economics professor at Johns Hopkins University, accused D'Alesandro (but later retracted and apologized) of having been "an outspoken admirer of Mussolini." Chimed in Candidate James Bruce, business tycoon and onetime (1947-49) U.S. Ambassador to Argentina: "D'Alesandro's tax policy has been a one-man trapeze act." Snapped Baltimore paving contractor and Perennial Candidate George Mahoney: "Far be it from me to accuse other candidates, but it would be nice if they supplied something more current than wedding and graduation photographs." Thus did the candidates near the end of a free-for-all Free State...
...Switzerland. The young prince returned to Spain to be educated at Madrid's St. Isidro high school, and word went out that Franco intended that after his death the boy should rule Spain. Since then, presumably under Franco's soldierly guidance, Juan Carlos has become a one-man unified armed force. He graduated as a second lieutenant from Spain's West Point at Saragossa, and after his present navy stint he will enter the Spanish Air Academy...
...theatrical tradition of Maude Adams, Greta Garbo and Paul Muni. And shut up in the passionate reserve is one of the most difficult, complex and enigmatic Englishmen who ever reached for the rouge. "A dark horse," says Sir Laurence Olivier, "a deep one." Director David (Kwai) Lean adds: "Alec is one of the most fantastically knotted-up men I know." And all agree with the actor who called him "the best-kept secret of modern times, a sort of one-man Tibet...