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Double Jeopardy. During its transition period from French possession to independence (an estimated three to six months), Algeria will be governed by a twelve-man Provisional Executive headed by Moslem Businessman Abderrahmane Fares, 50, released only last month from Fresnes prison, outside Paris. A helicopter touched down last week at...
Svetlana Serova was a precocious Moscow schoolgirl with well-to-do parents, a mental block about studying and an obsession for makeup, hairdos and boys. When her parents were away, she gave wild parties, whose telltale traces were rumpled sofas and broken crockery. Picked up a few years ago by...
In the summer of 1948, a squat, rumpled man took the witness stand before the House Un-American Activities Committee and made a series of accusations that changed the temper of his times. The accuser was a journalist named Whittaker Chambers. The accused was Alger Hiss, a longtime high-ranking...
THE MAKING OF THE PRESIDENT 1960 (400 pp.)-Theodore H. White-Atheneum ($6.95). John Fitzgerald Kennedy was slumped wearily on the edge of his bed, grizzle-chinned and wearing rumpled white pajamas, when Ted Sorensen, his closest aide, brought him the news that he had won in California and had...
Christ or Caesar. As Theologian Barth strode in, wearing his usual rumpled summer suit without a tie, his shock of grey hair was its customary bird's nest. Barely acknowledging the thunderous ovation that greeted him, he began his lecture on ethics where he had left off the day...