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...generals in Algiers, even Charles de Gaulle's iron composure seemed momentarily to waver. But in four perilous days, the 70-year-old De Gaulle re-established his imposing authority. France was left badly shaken, but with a sense that long-lived rancors had been purged. Stubborn and proud, De Gaulle once again proved himself the greatest Frenchman of modern times...
...GuiMotine, written in collaboration with Arthur Koestler. In a sustained invective, Camus shows compelling skill in his application of The Rebel to another contemporary issue--capital punishment. "Freedom," he said elsewhere, "is the road to perfectibility"--but this must not mislead. Not liberal perfectibility, not optimism, but the stubborn refusal to deprive a man of his only chance at improvement. Under no circumstances can an irrevocable punishment be out, however inhuman the crime. It is, again, precisely because of the wretchedness of life that life must be allowed...
Kelley and Oksanen quickly shook off early challengers, only to pick up a stubborn new competitor-a flop-eared black dog that stayed with them for 14 miles, intermittently skittered across the road, nipped at the racers' heels, and stubbornly eluded state troopers who tried to lure him off the course. At the 16-mile mark, the mongrel charged at Oksanen, who swerved suddenly and caused Kelley to trip and fall. Sprawled on the road with a skinned elbow and knee, a bleeding hand and a grit-stained face, Kelley got a helping hand from Fellow Runner Fred Norris...
Rash Risk? Although only stubborn skeptics expressed doubt that the flight had been made at all, with every report more contradictions came to light. And when newsmen checked back over the preflight publicity, more curious items turned up. For days, Moscow had been flooded with rumors about an imminent attempt at space flight. Before the Vostok flight, the Moscow correspondent for the London Daily Worker cabled his paper that the cosmonaut son of a famous Soviet airplane designer had orbited the earth three times and landed with serious injuries. The London Daily Sketch identified him as Gennady Mikhailov. Soviet authorities...
...Louis Joxe, 59, De Gaulle's Minister for Algerian Affairs. An ex-teacher and journalist, Joxe is a sophisticated intellectual with an instinctive flair for politics. "All in all," says a friend, "a cool sort of fellow." At the head of the F.L.N. team will probably be stubborn, soft-spoken Ahmed Francis, 49, who has spent the past four years as the F.L.N.'s chief fund raiser and accountant. A World War II French army medical officer and former Deputy in the French Assembly, Francis is a close personal friend of rebel "Premier" Ferhat Abbas, and a member...