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...really forgotten the 83 dead and 75 injured (some still in the hospital) from last year's 24-hour Grand Prix of Endurance. But the good citizens of Le Mans and the nervous officials of France's Automobile Club de I'Ouest also remembered that les -vingt-quatre heures mean a grand influx of 1) hundreds of thousands of visitors, and 2) coin of the realm. So they worked out a compromise between dollars and danger. They widened the road, beefed up the grandstand, and optimistically wrote some strict rules for cars and drivers...
...orders. On its American debut the Morane-Saulnier craft flew Ambassador to the U.S. Maurice de Murville from Washington to New York in 35 minutes, setting a civil aviation record In pure research, France's large Société Nationale de Constructions Aéronautiques du Sud-Ouest (S.N.C.A.S.O.) is flying its Trident, a jet-and-rocket-powered interceptor, at supersonic speeds, while the tiny (400 workers) Leduc Co. has built an even more radical fighter with a needlelike plastic cockpit and a 143,000-lb.-thrust (at 621 m.p.h.) ramjet engine. Carried aloft on the back...
...Focke-Wulf)* and helicopter pioneer, carried on as usual, but at a new stand. He was now working for the French, living in a small Paris hotel, pursuing his specialty in suburban Argenteuil for the thoroughly named Société Nationale des Constructions Aéronautiques du Sud-Ouest...
...France all the railroads lose money but the Government, which actually operates only Ouest-Etat and Alsace-Lorraine, pays all the losses. In fact, Finance Minister Vincent Auriol announced last week, France's privately controlled railroads- biggest of which are the Paris-Lyons- Mediterranee, Paris-Orleans, Est, Midi and Nord-have a joint capital of only 8,000,000,000 francs (about $352,000,000) but already owe the State 25,000,000,000 (about $1,100,000,000). Only way to clean up this mess, he said, was for the Government to take over every mile of track...
March 29, "Le Mouvement Regionaliste. Lee University du Nord at du Gentre"; April 5, "Lee University du Sud-Ouest La Vie des Etudiants"; April 12, "Lee Universites du Sud-Est. L'Evolution et le Developpement des Universites Francais." These lectures will be open to the public...