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Though long retired from active command in the French army, Juin by his stand might stir up troublemakers among the 400,000 soldiers on active duty in Algeria. Taking no chances, French Defense Minister Pierre Guillaumat curtly summoned Juin to his office in Paris and reminded him of "the government's will that military chiefs hold themselves entirely apart from political discussions." And in his first order of the day to the troops in Algeria, as President and "Chief of the Armies," De Gaulle himself sternly declared: "In full knowledge of the facts, I have fixed what must...
...Countless films and TV plays have made the state pen almost as familiar a setting as Tombstone-the hostages with shivs at their throats, the leader in the besieged cell block on the phone to the warden, the Spartacus-in-denims who invariably fails to make it out of stir. Giving the old plot a new twist, Novelist William Wiegand (who teaches creative writing at Stanford) has produced a tale of a prison riot that is at once a violent melodrama, a psychological quiz and a political morality play...
...through breakfast all right, although he didn't feel much like eating. One of his room-mates, with whom he was sitting, changed tapes for him, and Vag did not stir throughout the meal, although his amplifier uttered occasional comments which, although often ill-timed, were inconsequential enough not to interrupt the conversation around...
...Milk v. the Cream. Hard as they pounded at their pension scheme, the Laborites still sorely needed a major issue to stir an emotional response to their cry: "Are you getting your share of the prosperity?" They thought they had one as London newspapers suddenly began to blaze with headlines about the strange stock machinations of one Harry Jasper and the 450-odd "companies" of which he is a director. On the London stock exchange, dealings in $55 million worth of securities associated with Jasper's name were summarily suspended; day after day scores of worried investors clustered outside...
...earth, but since it is much smaller, its metal core has cooled off and solidified. Other moon experts are not so sure. Nobel Prizewinner Harold Urey of the University of California points out that the moon may have a fluid metal core that is not moving fast enough to stir up measurable magnetism...