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...making life "unendurable to those inflicting" slights on France. He recounts with relish that when he felt the British, with U.S. backing, were elbowing France out of Lebanon and Syria, "the way the Anglo-American powers were behaving toward us justified our throwing a pebble into their diplomatic pond." The most recent pebble thrown by De Gaulle was brick-sized and caused quite a splash. He also believes France is better equipped to win support from small nations than either the U.S. or Russia, because "many states and world opinion instinctively shy away from giants." His greatest, and still unrealized...
...Like pond-scrimming beetles, hundreds of speedboats and scows criss crossed the Gulf of Mexico last week carrying men and material to 88 rigs perched off the Louisiana coast. Helicopters whirred overhead, and field offices set up by 20 major oil companies bulged with engineers and geological surveyors. Arcing from the Mississippi Delta westward to the Sabine River and extending seaward 75 miles, Louisiana's 47 offshore oilfields cover a pool of more than 10 billion bbl. Coastal Louisiana, as a result, has become the world's busiest offshore oil site...
Since Aug. 2, 1960, the Water Department has been adding one part of sodium silicofluoride per million parts of water at a treatment plant near the Fresh Pond reservoir in West Cambridge. By collecting 4000 signatures in a petition filed last month--far more than the five per cent of registered voters required by law--foes of fluoridation were able to put the issue before the people again...
Several minority interests were represented, as individuals lobbied for elevators, taller and fewer buildings, a moat or pond. "Preserve the Gingko Tree!" cried one girl. The tree, at the corner of Walker and Shepherd Streets, is in no danger. "Don't destroy the volleyball court!" she also pleaded. The court is doomed...
Last fall when Harvard acquired "Elmwood," the famous 18th Century house near the intersection of Mount Auburn Street and Fresh Pond Parkway, local historical societies made loud protests. They feared (with good cause) that the University would tear down the imposing frame house and promptly commission architects Sert, Jackson, and Gourley to put up another of the parti-colored concrete horrors that already disfigure sites on both banks of the Charles...