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...readers a clear, sharp look at France's delusive, defeatist political climate. Although French business, professional and educational leaders make up two-thirds of its subscribers, the magazine frequently needles French employers for their notoriously low wage scales and bad labor relations. It has not spared the rod in criticizing the nation's backward public school system. Last week Réaltiés was coming off the presses with still another rebuke: a special on-the-spot report from Algeria on the shortsighted colonial policy that may eventually cost France much of her North African empire...
Freshman intramural managers elected Jan Gilbert, of Grays Hall, president of their Executive Council this week. Charles Sailstad, of Straus, was chosen secretary, Rod Winn, of Matthews, publicity director, and Eric Shaw, of Thayer North, assistant secretary...
...hospital for a lunch. Physicians permitted the addition of the first personal item to the hospital room since the President entered it. Up on a bureau, where Ike could see it, went a color picture of grandson David Eisenhower, wearing a black cowboy hat and holding a fishing rod...
...midweek, with his briefcase in one hand and a cardboard-roll carton containing his favorite fly rod in the other, Adams boarded a United Air Lines coach flight for Washington to attend meetings of the Cabinet and the National Security Council. When he arrived in Washington, reporters asked him why he had traveled coach rather than first class or by Government plane. Said Adams (who used to carry his lunch to the office in a paper bag when he was governor of New Hampshire in 1949-53): "You can save a lot of money that...
...Horton (The Trip to Bountiful) Foote, has had a change of producers and a change of view. CBS Story Editor Don Moore concedes that sponsors are begging for "upbeat" plays, but argues that it is simply because "morbid themes were overdone and a natural reaction set in." Writer Rod (Patterns) Serling agrees: "Plays of TV's dark brown era-they were usually set on a decaying front porch of a Southern mansion-went down deep but they were run into the ground. Maybe a change is for the better...