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...display of political mastery, De Gaulle made each of his objectives support the others. By flying Rebel Organizer Jacques Soustelle out of Algiers and making him his Minister of Information, De Gaulle yanked the insurgents' sharpest tooth, yet at the same time gave the embattled settlers enough of a payoff to keep them submissive if not content. By tying the vote on autonomy for France's Black African territories to the vote on his proposed constitution, he obliged right-wingers to swallow his liberal colonial policy, at the same time picked up 9,000,000 African votes to swell...
...Iraq last July. Since the Communist Party is nominally illegal in Iraq, Sherif heads a three-man politburo which calls itself the "Iraqi High Committee." The overall Communist boss inside the Arab world is Syria's Khaled Bakdash, whom Nasser let back into Syria last October as one payoff for his arms aid from Moscow...
...guides, the Hobo News, and paperbound books from James M. Cain to Stendhal. Subscribers to the Wall Street Journal angrily reported that their copies were being stolen from in front of their office doors. No New Yorkers were more dismayed by the strike than the numbers-game players: the payoff number is currently derived from the total mutuel take at Maryland's Pimlico race course, a figure that conveniently is carried by the daily press...
...They Planned. Of all last week's Democratic victories, the Minnesota win was the surest payoff of painstaking party organization, of long-range planning, of relentless year-round politicking and careful selection of candidates...
Wriggle in Radius. The new Donegan has been so successful that she has a contract with the Embers (through 1961) that brings her $2,000 a week and calls for two eight-week stints a year. This sort of payoff has drawn her to the attention of Internal Revenue men who argue that her gyrations constitute a cabaret act, that the club ought to pay the 20% entertainment tax rather than the 3% charged for purely instrumental gaiety. "If I had to stop groaning," Dorothy groans, "I'd be out of business." So a compromise was arranged...