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...types of people can generally feel assured of gaining entry to Charles de Gaulle's closely guarded Elyéee Palace: heads of state and SOS men. SOS operatives also receive the open-door treatment at the home of Premier Georges Pompidou, the American embassy and Princess Grace of Monaco's Parisian apartment. Reason: SOS is the company to which knowledgeable French householders turn when their plumbing goes bad, which is frequently...
...Ticklish Affair is unlikely to tickle anybody who is not addicted to an old Hollywood plot-boy meets girl's kiddies. Three lads want to find a husband for Mommy, a Navy widow (Shirley Jones). One day they flash a semaphoric SOS from their bedroom window toward the naval base across the bay, succeed in alerting a considerable portion of the U.S. Navy. When a suitably goodhearted, simple-minded commander (Gig Young) comes jeeping to the house, the boys look him over, decide he is just the man for Mommy. From then on, the story cruises so predictably that...
...Ochs's news columns were controlled by Managing Editor Carr Van Anda, the sort of man who could decide for himself that Britain's great new liner Titanic was not as unsinkable as all the proud publicity claimed. While other editors doubted the authenticity of the first SOS, Van Anda concluded that Titanic was indeed sinking. He deployed his staff, and the Times's superlative coverage made newspaper history. With such talent to help him, Ochs built a great paper that became the country's most reliable record of the world's daily changes...
...crops grow, peoples wax and wane, and nations struggle. Sometimes even the slowest of continents quickens into the news: Africa's burst of independence three years ago made it something more than a locale for Hemingway movies, and the Middle East region, so volatile in the mid-'sos, is becoming so again. Journalistically, it is increasingly the turn of Latin America. For too many years that area was ignored by many Yanquis, who regarded it as a place inhabited by an undistinguishably homogeneous group of Latins. In President Kennedy's estimation, it is "the most critical area...
TIME'S Sport writer and researcher, still in their sos, naturally look up to older men in their...