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...what Lieut. Servan-Schreiber has to report is dreadful, but men of good will fare almost worse than the corrupt brutalitarians. One officer was so dedicated to winning back the trust of the native population that he founded an Arab-French unit. On patrol, his outfit was betrayed into ambush and he was machine-gunned by one of his own Arabs...
...than 4,000 miles across the Atlantic for foreign help in turning the city into one gigantic promotion spree. Naturally, Neiman's chose France, where the highest fashion comes from−and naturally France was only too glad to help Neiman's, where all good Texas millionaires outfit their wives...
...important of all, James ("Jimmy the Flash") Karam, head of the Arkansas State Athletic Commission, was on the scene from the beginning. Karam, once a third-string halfback at Auburn (he is fond of recalling his days as an "All-American"), turned professional strikebreaker (he bossed a goon-staffed outfit called Veterans Industrial Association Inc.), then became a Little Rock haberdasher and a near, dear friend to Governor Orval Faubus. Last week, while his wife was with Orval and Alta Faubus at Sea Island, Jimmy Karam moved purposefully around the crowd outside Central High School, whispering here, nodding curtly there...
Explained manager and Part-Owner Ernie Tannen: "After inspecting our electronic navel, we decided we had grown too fast and too big to keep on being just a Negro outfit." WILY found that its mesmerizing music and offbeat programs were attracting up to three times as many white as Negro fans. So WILY, after filing new call letters with FCC, became what Tannen believes to be the first Negro station to move into the general market...
More than one Crimson team played surprisingly well Saturday afternoon. But the soccer squad, unlike the football team, hung on to the end and held the powerful Cornell outfit to a scoreless tie through two overtime periods...