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...France's national way of life. The British are fighting a hard, increasingly successful battle for economic survival through planned austerity. The French have chosen a sometimes crooked middle road between a free economy and socialism, rely almost entirely on U.S. help for survival; as a result France has one of Europe's weakest currencies...
...result was a compromise. Papagos was in as generalissimo, free to act without interference from the politicians. Sophoulis would head the new government as titular Premier, but the work of holding it together would be entrusted to a younger deputy Premier: 74-year-old Alexander Diomedes, economist, Byzantine scholar, novice in politics. Some Athenians professed to see a portent in the fact that, on the day the new government was formed, a two-headed baby was born in Piraeus...
...Wonderful Job." Son of a Paris upholsterer, Marjolin left school at 14, worked for six years at office and factory jobs, then entered the Sorbonne. After a year at the Sorbonne, Marjolin won a Rockefeller scholarship for a year's study at Yale. One result of this trip was a treatise entitled "The Evolution of Trade Unionism in the United States from Washington to Roosevelt...
Here & there the show has a nice rowdy zip, but oftener it is just brassy and unkempt. Its purple-lighted torch songs and arty anatomical dances have a bygone, almost burlesque air about them; its way of joking is as familiar as its jokes. As a result, several talented people have a lot of trouble proving that they are. Handsome Crooner Carol Bruce can only be huskily banal; Nancy Walker is amusingly tough at times, but in general the going is tougher. Amid so much theatrical wet wash, only Hank Ladd's slow easy patter seems properly laundered...
...defense. Against Holy Cross, he held talented George Kaftan scoreless from the floor; for one period he did the same thing to Kentucky's great Alex Groza. To opponents, his nonchalance is frustrating. In the Canisius game, the enemy's pivot man tried guarding Ed too closely. Result: the Canisius star wound up on the bench in tears, out of the game on personal fouls with 14 minutes to play...