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...Marshal Pétain, who, at 84, had come to believe that "age was a major quality." A sort of Little Father to the people of France, he might have seized the "trumpet from the Angel of Victory at the Arc de Triomphe" and blown such a blast as could "awaken France." But Father Pétain had no breath to spare for trumpeting. Ever since the German breakthrough and the British evacuation from Dunkirk, his mind had been fixed on the idea of saving France by surrendering to Germany, and when he uttered the word "catastrophe," his voice "sounded...
Crown, a sometime partner of Hotelman Conrad Hilton as well as Chicago's biggest materials supplier, then bought an additional 21% from lesser investors, for a total of 65%. But in spite of his stock control. Crown felt honor-bound to re tain the building management installed by Real Estate Promoter Roger L. Stevens, who quarterbacked the original buying syndicate. This arrangement nettled him, however, and last week he took up Stevens and his colleagues on an offer to sell out at about $50 a share-provided that they could deliver almost all the outstanding stock...
...After the war, Hoettl promoted a villa for himself in Alt-Aussee, near Salzburg, by lining up ex-SS informants for the U.S. Army's CIC or Counter-intelligence Corps. The Army dropped him in 1949. He claims to have intelligence contacts behind the Iron Cur tain, and was arrested in 1953 because of his connections with suspected Soviet spies. But later Hoettl was released with out charges. He now supports the neo-Nazi VDU Party because, he says, it is the nearest thing to a sensible rightist party in Austria...
Though specialized instruction would be limited to summer camp, the committee suggests that the Harvard unit re- tain its identification with the Artillery. There were two reasons for this decision: the Committee agreed with President Lowell, who said when the College instituted the ROTC that Harvard should be connected with a combat branch. Also there is no sign that artillery men will not be necessary for a long time to come. Since all the specialization would be included in the second six weeks period of summer camp, however, the program would be much like the "Branch General" programs in which...
...each opening were seven men whose arrivals in the theater were meticulously noted by people on both sides of the curtain. The seven: New York's big daily newspaper critics, who wield a power in their field that few newsmen can match. As soon as the final cur tain touched the stage, four of them hurried for the exits and made for their offices, where within one hour they had written their reviews and sent them to the composing rooms of the morning papers. Their verdict: Ondine, mixed praise; The Winner, mixed disappointment...