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...following day Kennedy was up early for his fifth session with De Gaulle; this time both men took along a platoon of advisers. Somewhat reluctantly, Kennedy attended a luncheon press conference to answer questions (which had been submitted in writing three days before). The President glided newslessly through most of the queries, aiming his answers as much at Soviet listeners in Vienna as at the 400 newsmen gathered in the Palais de Chaillot. His major points...
...many outstanding out-of-the-way spots, including Casa la Golondrina in Los Angeles, Spenger's Fish Grotto in Berkeley, and Bimbo's 365 Theatre Restaurant in San Francisco, starred twice by a taster whose appreciation for his crab bella vista was perhaps enhanced by the platoon of undraped chorines onstage. (The guide discreetly lists this as "elaborate entertainment...
...displays the search by the writer for authentic attitudes, his impatience with conventional social definitions. Called "The Nickel Misery of George Washington Carver Brown," it tells of the death (interestingly, five of the twelve prizewinners deal with dying) of Brown, one of two Negroes in a basic training platoon. Gold satirizes the remaining main characters--the embittered Corporal Cherry, Private Hines, whose inclusion makes it clear that Gold is not particularly concerned with Brown as a member of a minority group, and Private Frazier (a writer who thinks in stereotyped literary images). But his satire betrays a genuine contempt...
More than 500 correspondents from 40 countries flocked to Jerusalem last week for the decade's most publicized trial. From West Germany came Europe's largest single platoon: 45 newsmen. Japan and East Germany each sent six, Russia two, Nigeria one. Among the arrivals were many who had turned journalist just for the occasion: U.S. Novelist Irwin (The Young Lions) Shaw, whose "incisive understanding of the Nazi mentality" was under contract to Hearst; Indian Poet Dom Moraes, representing Encounter, a British magazine; U.S. Banker Ira Hirschmann for Look...
...League of Gentlemen. Ex-Colonel Jack Hawkins leads a proper platoon of the Queen's Own Down-and-Outers against the outmanned forces of law and order...