Word: petitiveness
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Winthrop, 50, the fourth of the five Rockefeller brothers, settled in Arkansas ten years ago, built himself a big showplace of a farm on Petit Jean Mountain, about 60 miles from Little Rock. He proceeded to put his abundant money and energies into Arkansas' sad economic and cultural life. Among his personal and business achievements: a public school rejuvenation program in Morrilton, including a model elementary school and donations totaling $500,000 for the school district; a clinic in poor Perry County; a campaign that raised $700,000 for an arts center; a homebuilding program that includes Negro communities...
...well and good. But the squire of Petit Jean Mountain is also an active Republican-and in Arkansas, that's not so good. Last year, with Rockefeller as G.O.P. state chairman, the Republicans actually put up 22 candidates for the state legislature. Rockefeller personally financed campaigns against Faubus and Senator William Fulbright. All the Democrats, of course, won. But they had been given a bit of a scare, and Faubus decided to do something about...
...dressed stranger used the public telephone at. La Esmeralda café, across the square from Paris' Notre-Dame Cathedral. "This is the S.A.O.," he barked. "Yes, the S.A.O. We're giving you Argoud. He betrayed us, bungled all the jobs he was supposed to organize, particularly the Petit-Clamart affair. You can take delivery of him now. He's in a blue truck in the alley opposite Notre-Dame...
Shrewd Delay. Algeria was a word much spoken also in a courtroom in suburban Vincennes, where nine would-be assassins were on trial for having tried to kill De Gaulle last August in an ambuscade at Petit-Clamart, a Paris suburb. As has so often happened in France since the Dreyfus case of the 1890s, the trial was not confined to pertinent evidence but blossomed into a national political affair. Very few Frenchmen had much sympathy for the defendants, but many had grave doubts about how they were being tried...
...trial continued its flamboyant way, the wild rhetoric of the defendants could not conceal the implacable determination to kill. La Gloire summons French men in many directions. Five of the gunmen who took part in the Petit-Clamart ambush are still at large, including the most dangerous of all, Georges Watin, 39. nicknamed Boiteux (The Limper), who the police say was also the brains behind the Ecole Militaire plot. A French Cabinet minister, emerging from a meeting at the Elysée Palace last week, said worriedly to a friend: "Never has De Gaulle's life been in such...