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...four days, Algeria reeled through the delirium of independence. When Premier Benyoussef Benkhedda of the F.L.N. Provisional Government arrived in Algiers, he was hailed by a half-million cheering Moslems waving green-white-and-red flags. Benkhedda was swept from his Jeep, borne shoulder-high through the ecstatic crowd, losing his habitual dark glasses on the way. But behind the cheers and the swirling flags lay a new threat to the tortured country. Now that the terror campaign waged by the Secret Army against the Moslems had at long last subsided, the Moslems began to fight among themselves, haunted...
manhole covers, guided groups in East Berlin lowered themselves into the sewer, hunched through the shoulder-high canal, emerged in West Berlin beneath an automobile placed over the open manhole...
...some recess of his privacy. Mingling with the crowds of well-wishers, Kennedy moves rapidly, shaking every available hand, signing autographs, smiling shyly and murmuring "Thank you" or "Glad to be here," as he goes. Greeting his fans from a distance, he lifts his right hand in a diffident, shoulder-high wave that is identical with the football signal for a first down, but deliberately resists such exuberant gestures as the wide-open Eisenhower arms. Generally, he goes over fine: some politicians even suggest that he has the old "Roosevelt aura...
...mining town of El Alia, Soustelle turned implacably hostile toward negotiations with the rebel F.L.N., called for all-out military suppression. So congenial did the settlers find his new attitude that when Socialist Premier Guy Mollet yanked Soustelle from his job as Governor General, he was carried shoulder-high through Algiers by French colons in one of the wildest demonstrations in the city's history. Soustelle promised the crowd: "This is not farewell. I will return when Algeria needs...
...Guinea. In fact, the local headhunters had never even heard of TV, and when Lowell ran off the "rushes" for some native chiefs, they were "utterly bored." This week Thomas put U.S. viewers to the test with the first of seven new color travelogues on CBS. Gleeful headhunters waded shoulder-high in scummy New Guinea swamps to catch crocodiles with their bare hands; the barebreasted "debutantes of Kambaramba" skimmed along opal waters in narrow canoes at breathtaking speeds, and Headline-Hunter Thomas appeared every few feet to remind viewers of the "increasing perils." There were hackle-raising scenes of wizened...