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After years of hesitation, tentative probes and endless talks all over Europe. Britain last week decided to take the big step and apply anew for membership in the six-nation Common Market. This means that Europe, and particularly Charles de Gaulle (who blackballed Britain's first application in 1963), must in turn decide whether to expand the Continental economic and trade community to seven members-and possibly to even ten or twelve, since Britain's fellow members in the European Free Trade Association are almost certain to try to follow...
...Step Back." In the funeral procession, Johnson and De Gaulle walked side by side, with only the short German President between them. Yet they managed to ignore each other. On the two other times when they met during the Bonn ceremonies, it was obvious that they had drifted even farther apart since their last none too effusive meeting at John Kennedy's funeral. De Gaulle was correct, but hardly cordial. Johnson stuck by his own plan of how to handle le grand Charles. "You've seen boys playing," he had told his aides shortly before leaving for Europe...
...swept France. Some 8,000 workers at France's largest shipyards have now been out for two months, and steelworkers in Lorraine have been off the job for five weeks. There is more in store, if large enough masses of Frenchmen can be persuaded to fall in step...
...spacecraft carrying several men and that the two ships would attempt to rendezvous, dock, exchange crews and set up an orbiting space station. There was speculation that the second ship had a restartable engine that would push the joined ships as far out as 50,000 miles-a first step toward a flight later this year in which a manned Russian ship would circumnavigate the moon...
When all-girl Vassar announced last winter that it was exploring an affiliation with male Yale (TIME, Dec. 30), the college was far from taking a revolutionary or original step. All across the nation, separate-sex schools are rapidly going coed, and some educators wonder whether colleges that do not go along with the trend will survive at all. "Nowhere in the world," insists Vassar President Alan Simpson, "is anyone really making a powerful argument for separate education any more." Kenyon College President Franze Edward Lund agrees that separate education "is an anachronism in an age that admits less...