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...task. Despite a flurry of imaginative proposals from both sides of the aisle, there was little hope that Congress-dominated by its aging, rural-oriented committee chairmen-would open up those resources without a strong push from the electorate. Yet the man in the best position to stir the American conscience, the President, seemed unusually phlegmatic about the urban crisis...
...most extraordinary scenes ever staged at Orly airport. At 4 a.m., almost all the members of the French Cabinet lined up like an honor guard to greet Charles de Gaulle. They had hardly expected the predawn arrival; but then, they had hardly expected their President to stir up such a fuss in Canada that he would have to take French leave and hurry home...
...Obsolete Children." This happy nonsense was byplay at the museum's six-week summer workshop, the latest effort by Dr. Seuss, actually Theodor Seuss Geisel, to stir the imagination of children. The workshop seems to be doing just that. The kids use the backs of dolls to make small cars for the streets of the model city; they record the city's sounds and transform them-slowed tapes of a pingpong ball bouncing on concrete boom like a distant gun; the filming gives them new visual perspectives-all aimed at making them more aware of an urban environment...
Died. Joseph Leon Cardinal Cardijn, 84, "the workers' cardinal," the son of a Brussels concierge, who in 1912, to stir up religious interest in the industrial slums, started organizing cell-like groups of young adults, thereafter for five decades stumped the world marshaling 14-to-30-year-olds into the Jeunesse Ouvriere Chretienne (Young Christian Workers), a left-of-center self-help movement that today counts 2,000,000 members in 69 countries; of a heart attack; in Louvain, Belgium...
...else's. His account of his life contains lengthy, vague gaps. And though his memory goes far back, some suggest that what he is remembering about events is what he was told years after they had happened-just like Bridey Murphy, whose claims of "reincarnation" created such a stir a decade...