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...Charles de Gaulle (even the advisory Council of State, at the moment of crisis, had refused, 57 to 47, to vote the government its confidence). But De Gaulle had not wavered. Last week he was grimly pressing to reopen talks with the Moslem F.L.N. (Front de Libération Nationale), hoping to negotiate independence for Algeria before the shattered ultras could reorganize. For it was unlikely that even Charles de Gaulle could survive another hundred hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France: Soul Searching | 5/12/1961 | See Source »

...Life-Ration, cards of "living time" are issued to people according to their degree of uselessness. The part-time lifers must undergo a state of nonbeing or "temporary death" each month. As a result, they live their lives more fully than the productive fulltime lifers, who become sullen drudges. Moral: it is not the length but the breadth and depth of life that matters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mephistophelian Moralist | 4/21/1961 | See Source »

...Barbara Rhodes are gentle, guileless, upper middle class and upper middlebrow. He is 34, she is 27, and their only sadness is a slightly self-conscious chagrin at not having had a child. The France they visit in 1948 is still digging its way out of rubble and through ration books, still bitterly preoccupied with sour memories of the war and occupation years. The Rhodeses are the kind of Americans who think them selves a cut above Americans, other American tourists at any rate. To get beyond the brief cultural encounters of hotels, museums and sightseeing tours, they arrange...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: An Affair of the Heart | 4/14/1961 | See Source »

JONATHAN R. WALTON, Eichmann comes to trial in Jerusalem. He stands under a special Israeli law provides the death penalty gis and Nazi Collaborators" d of crimes against the people. Eichmann, who was the authors of the "Final to the Jewish problem"--ration and extermination was captured May 11 in Aries by "volunteers", and to Israel before either Is Argentine government of of his where abouts, be tried publicly, and is ex plead superior orders; edguesses predict that the of evidence accumulated last 15 years will be suf convict...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eichmann Trial: Legality and Morality | 3/24/1961 | See Source »

...canvas cylinders: to save gasoline they are now run on natural gas. Never since the inauguration of the Communist regime in 1949 has poverty been so widespread as it is this year. Signs posted in eating establishments blare out the message: 'You don't need your "whole" ration. Eat no more than will keep the hunger away.' Mess halls compete for the 'Red Star' which is awarded to the establishment that has managed to serve its patrons even less than did its neighbors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Red China: Last Time I Saw Peking | 3/3/1961 | See Source »

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