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...waiting supporters. Nonetheless, Edgar Faure was given a fair chance to survive a while: the Deputies who had come to hate Mendès had an interest in making Mendès' successor look good. With Mendès gone, many dedicated "Europeans" have abandoned their stubborn opposition to the Paris accords, are willing to support them unreservedly...
Besides the antagonisms of farmer v. townsman, big business v. small business, worker v. industrialist. France suffers from an older, more stubborn and more pervasive division-the division between clerical and anticlerical. It is a division which makes two parties where there could have been one, which splits the non-Communist left into anticlerical Socialists and pro-Catholic M.R.P., the non-Gaullist right into secularist Radical Socialists and religionist Independents...
...anthropologist and married to an anthropologist, he voyaged to Mexico and South America, wrote a series of outstanding books on the Inca and Aztec cultures. Politically on the left, he joined De Gaulle in London shortly after the fall of France. Later, having proved himself a ruthless and stubborn administrator, he was put in charge of the Free French secret service and counter-espionage in Algiers. His work uncovering illegal Communist Party activities just after the liberation of France earned him the enduring enmity of French Reds. But he is also no friend of the U.S.: during his anthropological work...
Once again much of the team's chances will hinge on the condition of anchor-man Dave Alpers. Alpers, who has been plagued with a back injury during most of the season, will be running with the added handicap of a stubborn cold. If Alpers can still turn in times such as the 48.4 effort which sealed last year's record relay, the team may well outdistance its rivals, and such nationally recognized stars as Villanova's speedster Charlie Jankins...
...happens in a soundly built play, all the actors turned in superlative jobs. Top honors went to chunky Ed Begley, one of TV's most valuable utility actors, who brought to his role of a businessman hagridden both by his boss and his ulcer a fine pitch of stubborn and despairing dignity...