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...responsables were doing a remarkable job of keeping the mobs from violent reprisals against the colons. The F.L.N. even found it necessary to issue a reassuring press release pointing out that the Moslem side was really gaining advantages in the terms of what is already called the "sad peace." Skyward Guns. In the deserted summer resort of Evian-les-Bains on the Franco-Swiss border, the last details of the sad peace were being worked...
...year, are jammed with wild-swinging enthusiasts. There is the bed boom, as people leave their straw mats for Western-style mattresses. There are skiing booms, boating booms, bowling booms, appliance booms. Cities throb with the pound of pile drivers pushing new office buildings and apartments skyward. Tokyo's streets -most of them no more than lanes-resound with the honking of 700,000 cars, trucks and motorcycles, v. 59,000 before the war; traffic jams are hideous, and the death rate from traffic accidents the highest in the world. So many people pack stores, subways and amusement centers...
...height of the battle. One Globemaster pilot, coming in for a landing, had not been advised that his glide path took him directly over Premier Tshombe's own residence; before he touched ground, his fuselage and one of his engines had been peppered with small-arms fire aimed skyward by Tshombe's own house guards, leading the U.S. to suspend the airlift for a day until the U.N. could guarantee fighter escorts...
Technology, placed at the service of the church, makes possible more audacity in design. For the Benedictine monastery church of St. John's at Collegeville, Minn., Marcel Breuer has flung skyward a 112-ft.-high bell banner utilizing reinforced concrete and parabolic curves to erect a vertical cantilever, a form that Architect Breuer thinks as expressive of the mid-20th century as the Byzantine dome and Gothic arch and spire were of their times...
...veteran G.I. answering chow call. The week's high point came as a drumroll of applause beat up to the speaker's dais in Chicago's Conrad Hilton Hotel. Ike flashed a Nixon-Lodge badge as big as a butter plate, grinned mightily, pumped his arms skyward in the familiar big V for the benefit of 40,000 Republicans, linked at fund-raising dinners in 36 cities by closed circuit TV. Then well aware that Republicans were still hurting from the TV debate between Dick Nixon and Jack Kennedy, the biggest political gun in the land fired...