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Editor Reese reported losing no advertisers and only one subscriber, said her fellow citizens are "too intelligent" to support "a spite sheet." But the fight will be bitter. Says Herald Managing Editor Julia G. Swart: "We hope to be the only paper here. The town is not big enough to support two papers...
...Rescue. But at this critical moment Edgar Faure had a trump card to play: Habib Bourguiba. That afternoon, obviously at Faure's invitation, the swart Neo-Destour leader stalked into the Hotel Matignon, the Premier's residence. After being closeted two hours with Faure, Bourguiba came out smiling broadly, and issued an optimistic statement. Much heartened, the Premiers of France and Tunisia got to work again, and at 1:25 a.m. gave out the joyful word: they had reached agreement. Almost choked with emotion, Premier Ben Amar said: "This is our wedding day." Said Premier Faure: "We must...
...actors, too, were chosen for their resemblance to the comic-strip characters. Robert Wagner, in a pageboy wig and leather buskins, is Prince Val stepping off the page. Janet Leigh, in a palomino peruke, makes a pretty Aleta, James Mason a swart and athletic villain. A couple of vikings, Victor McLaglen and former Heavyweight Champ Primo Camera, with their grunting and spluttering through chin-wigs, give a show that can only be matched by the Wednesday-night wrestling on television...
...three years ago, swart young Gaspare Pisciotta was the close friend and trusted lieutenant of Sicily's most notorious bandit chieftain, Salvatore Giuliano (TIME, July 17, 1950 et seq.). Thanks to the unremitting efforts of Mario Scelba, who was then Italy's Interior Minister, Giuliano was killed and Pisciotta captured. At his trial, the boastful bandit lieutenant proudly admitted that it was he who had told the police where to find Giuliano, that it was he and not the police who fired the fatal bullet into the bandit's body. The confession earned him no forgiveness...
...recoiled. "Both as a dangerous threat to public liberties, and as an irresponsible act on the Reichstag fire model," it editorialized, "the bill must be opposed by every means." There was no sign, however, that Malan's Nationalist majority in Parliament felt anything but. admiration for Justice Minister Swart's plan...