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France was the week's prize squawker. The French government pulled a dismaying political tantrum because the U.S. said no to its request for an additional $625 million aid. The U.S. was willing to give the French $187 million more, and suggested that Paris should try to make ends meet on that. This $187 million is an addition to all other U.S. aid to France, which this year amounted to about $1 billion. Parisian hotheads leaked stories to the papers alleging that unless the U.S. paid up, France would 1) go bankrupt and possibly Communist, 2) pull...
While NATO's diplomats were still congratulating themselves on the job done at Lisbon, the pivotal nation in West Europe's defense threw a disheartening-political tantrum. By a 16-vote margin, the French National Assembly overturned Premier Edgar Faure's 40-day-old cabinet...
Better than most modern statesmen, Iran's Premier Mohammed Mossadegh knows the value of the childlike tantrum. Last week he sat at home "in korsi," i.e., on a mattress on the floor with his legs around a charcoal burner, and a blanket covering all of him but his head, and considered Iran's forthcoming general election. Gloomily, the aged Premier sent for Court Minister Hussein Ala and told him he was going to quit. Why? asked the flabbergasted...
Stairway on A. At the Met, she is a cheerful favorite among singers as well as stagehands. Says Jennie, the Met's tantrum-tested wardrobe boss: "She's regular." She is also a hard worker and a serious student. She has to learn her roles letter-perfect, and for a good reason: "I'm as blind as a bat." Without her glasses, she can hardly see either the prompter or the conductor. Conductors like her because she is quick, clever and agreeable, "no prima donna in temperament...
Many a man with Mossadeq's tantrum-my temperament would have had lifelong ulcers. Actually, says Dr. Gholam Mossadeq, his father hasn't had one since his youth. Now he is the ulcer type, without the ulcer...