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...steep hill outside Rouen, 80 miles from the finish, Robic pumped his way ahead. A few hours later, he zoomed victoriously across the finish line in Paris' Pare des Princes, raising both hands over his head in a risky gesture to the glory of France. Then he rushed into the arms of his pretty brunette wife, whom he had married three days before the race began. His time: 148 hours, 11 minutes, 25 seconds. His prize: 500,000 francs ($4,197.50) and a probable three or four million francs more in future exhibitions and endorsements...
John Taber, chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, has held up the emergency aid to Greece for two months while he tries to pare down the $300 million appropriation by roaring haggling questions at State Department witnesses. Even though piecemeal aid to Greece does not make much long-range sense, the crisis in that country is getting worse and John Taber does not seem to have any ideas for coping with it. Last week the Greek Government arrested 4,000 Communists on charges of plotting to take over the country (see FOREIGN NEWS). From Communist-run Albania, a new guerrilla...
Thomson: The Plow That Broke the Plains (Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra, Leopold Stokowski conducting; Victor, 4 sides). Unlike most movie music, this still breathes after being separated from its celluloid twin, a documentary film by Pare Lorentz. Manhattan's fastidious Composer-Critic Virgil Thomson, an expatriate from Kansas City, Mo., makes his folk material sound as authentic as Midwestern prairie wheat, but his handling of jazz smacks more of corn. Recording: excellent...
Russia's excuse for limiting the newsmen-the Moscow housing shortage-gave U.S. Ambassador Walter Bedell Smith his opening. The U.S. would pare 16 men off its 100-man official delegation, he said, and thus make room for 16 more newsmen. At week's end, the Russians agreed. No. 35 on the new quota of 36: the correspondent of New York's Communist Daily Worker...
...this week the smart money was riding on Eastern colors. But some bookies were beginning to bet that the judges would call off the whole show, pare down the field for a final running next year...