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...France, Premier Rene Mayer served notice that his new government wants alterations which would long delay, and might kill, the European Army...
...Paris pavements were icy that day, and bulky, baggy-eyed Rene Mayer, on his way to the National Assembly to plead support for a new government of France, slipped and staggered. Said he: "In my place, an ancient Roman would take it as an ill omen and go home. But modern courtesy forbids it. I believe they are waiting for me in this House." They were, but there too the ground was slippery...
...firmer assurances for the Gaullists. He promised there would be no division of France's armed forces. He also promised that he would not stake the existence of his government on a vote of confidence on the EDC issue. Both of these pledges were specific and circumscribed: internationalist Rene Mayer had not abandoned internationalism. But he had opened wide the gates for further changes. Voting began at 2:20 a.m., and less than an hour later gruff old Assembly President Edouard Herriot announced the result: 389 for Mayer, 205 against, 22 abstentions. It was one of the largest working...
...Rockefeller Institute's famed Bacteriologist Rene Jules Dubos. tuberculosis is a personal enemy. It killed his first wife; his assistant and second wife, Jean Porter Dubos, has suffered from...
...French-born Dr. Dubos should go much of the credit for sparking the development of antibiotics-among them streptomycin, first and still the best of the "miracle drugs" which fight TB. But in The White Plague (Little. Brown; $4), Rene and Jean Dubos urge mankind to stop thinking of the disease in terms of drugs and individual patients: "Tuberculosis is a social disease and presents problems that transcend the conventional medical approach . . . The impact of social and economic factors [must] be considered as much as the mechanisms by which tubercle bacilli cause damage to the human body. On the other...