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...Algeria's future, insisted Malraux, lies not with the soldiers, but in the wave of fraternization between French and Moslem Algerians that followed the army insurrection of May 13. "Was fraternization organized at the outset?" he demanded rhetorically. "It seems fairly probable . . . But even if fraternization was organized at the beginning, the moment came when it ceased to be organized . . . We have seen on the television and movie screens more Moslems applaud General de Gaulle than there are fellaghas in the whole of Algeria...
What was the shooting about? Lebanon's Moslem rebels, whose leaders shouted at the outset that their aim was simply to keep President Chamoun from changing the constitution and running for a second term, fought right on after the government pledged that Chamoun would step down when his six-year term ended in September. Chamoun, confident that he could always count on U.S. aid, refused to compromise further...
...simple candor, the book is much more than a scalding footnote to fever-hot headlines. The Question does not stop with the Algerian question but goes on to ask: What does it mean to be a human being? It tells of the shame and glory of man. At the outset, "Alleg's inquisitors were as cocksure in their cynicism as in their brutality. They believed that just as every man is said to have his price, so every man has his breaking point. "You're going to talk! Everybody talks here!" they told him. With obscene thoroughness, they...
Wolves & Mink. The big drawing cards at the outset: for Russia-models of the Sputniks. For the U.S.-a continuous parade of European fashion models, decked out in American-made bathing suits, $15 chemises or $7,500 mink coats. Almost unnoticed in the wolf-whistling stampede toward the fashion models: the U.S. atomic energy exhibit. Other American attention-getters: the "Circarama," a 15-minute movie of America the Beautiful projected on a 360° screen; the IBM 305 Ramac, which produces answers in ten languages in ten seconds; a set of U.S. voting machines. The pavilion's transplanted "corner...
...quite right," he conceded at the outset, "in noting that the party organization plays an active role in the selection of candidates...