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Tunisia (pop. 3,700,000), which is the smallest, happiest and quietest of the three French possessions, and the most advanced toward independence. Besides Algeria's inhospitable plateaus, this is a broad stretch of country sloping down through grain fields, vineyards and great olive groves to the sea. It is the classic Ifriqiyeh, which gave its name to the whole continent. From Hannibal and Scipio to Rommel and Patton, soldiers have grappled for its strategical coasts, but the present Bey of Tunis, Sidi Mohammed el Amin, 74, belongs to a dynasty that has reigned for 250 years...
Down Schlösslistrasse in Bern, one of the quietest streets in the quietest capital in Europe, walked four masked men. The time was 10 p.m. Coming to No. 5, which is the Rumanian legation, they climbed quietly over a high iron-grille fence. Looming above them in the snowy darkness was the big building presided over by Chargé d'Affaires Emeric Stoffel. To their left, in a chalet-type house near the street, was the chancellery, where lived Aurel Setu, nominally the chauffeur, but actually the secret police boss of the Communist legation. The leader...
...Callander, Ont., word leaked that Marie Dionne, 20, smallest and quietest of the four surviving Dionne quintuplets (TIME, Aug. 16), who a month ago came home from a Montreal college for a holiday, had neither gone back to school nor been seen outside the big Dionne mansion since her return. At Marguerite Bourgeoys College, officials claimed that Marie had been sick. But Oliva ("Papa") Dionne said no, Marie was not ailing, just lonely and sick of the school...
Second Thoughts. Strikes during 1954's first seven months, the Labor Department reported, were the lowest for any seven-month figure since World War II. There were only 2,050 work stoppages involving 950.000 workers. Actually, the last 18 months have been the quietest on the labor front since war's end. But in the last two months, said the Labor Department cautiously, strikes have been on the increase...
Died. Emilie Dionne, 20, once the gay est and most active of Canada's famed quintuplets, in later years the quietest and shyest; following a series of epileptic seizures; in Ste. Agathe, Que. (see THE HEMISPHERE...