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...with a loft. alligator, struggled with an 18-ft. anaconda, plunged into the Atlantic in January, and urbanely commented on under sea matters through a diver's helmet 30 ft. below the surface of the Pacific. Collingwood once also gave his audience an authentic South American recipe, with step-by-step illustrations, on how to shrink a human head. An actual shrunken head was, of course, in camera range during the show...
...time had come for a parting of the ways. Pierre Mendès-France wrote to his friend Guy Mollet, the Socialist Premier of France: "Any policy that ignores the feelings and the misery of the native population leads, step-by-step, to loss of the Algerian people, to loss of Algeria itself, and finally, inevitably, to loss of all our possessions in Africa...
...Next step: to work out an informal arrangement between the seven-nation West European Union and the eight Warsaw Pact nations of Eastern Europe. The West will not consider any dismantling of NATO or of U.S. bomber bases, but it is willing to discuss a step-by-step reduction of armaments by both blocs...
...unpopular French army, 125,000 strong, will be reduced to 70,000 in step-by-step withdrawals. They will be sped on their...
...weapons. Though Russia unceasingly proclaimed its desire to "ban the bomb," it would not consent to a foolproof system of inspection and controls. Then, five weeks ago, Russia's Vishinsky quickened a few U.N. pulses by hinting that Russia might agree to a British-French plan for a step-by-step suppression of nuclear weapons. To U.S. experts, Vishinsky's seeming concession still looked like a plan with a built-in veto against thorough inspection-and the stalemate continued. Last week in the U.N. Political Committee, India's Krishna Menon rose to comment...