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...wealthy mining engineer and landowner, Gaillard was a precociously brilliant schoolboy, showed an early devotion to economics. After energetic wartime service in the resistance, he attended various international conferences as a financial expert, was elected to the Assembly (at 27) as a Radical Socialist in 1946, became a junior minister the next year. As Secretary of State to the Premier in 1953, he launched le plan Gaillard, a five-year program for atomic energy development. But he was little known to the French public until last summer, when as Finance Minister in the Bourges-Maunoury government, he courageously devalued...
...Abilene last week enthusiasm ran so high that the Eagles played as if they didn't dare lose. They never stopped running until they had whipped Big Spring 32 to 0. With impressive ease they put themselves on top of the toughest schoolboy football league in the U.S.; their string of 44 straight victories makes them the Oklahoma of high schools...
Earlier, freshman Jed Fitzgerald had thoroughly trounced Yale's heralded Tom Carroll, schoolboy 880 record-holder. He opened up a commanding 100-yard lead midway through the race and coasted to win by the same margin...
...freshman meet, another undefeated squad faces a talented Eli opponent. The Bullpups have lost only to the Fordham freshmen, and they boast three phenomenal runners in Tom Carroll, holder of the schoolboy 880 record, Ned Roache, and Bill Bachrach, who has beaten them both. Bachrach currently holds the Yale freshman cross country record...
Williams has dug into the prose, focusing every sharp-eyed, cockeyed image, finding a broomstick for every daffy, airborne prank, split-seconding every sottish or schoolboy joke...