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Nobody was happy over the way things were going. French prestige abroad was suffering one defeat after another. First there was the massive repudiation by Saar voters of France's ten-year rule. Snorted Deputy Jacques Vendrous, De Gaulle's brother-in-law: "France played cards while the Saar was lost." Deputies were also nettled at South Viet Nam's summary rejection of French Puppet Bao Dai, and shocked by the sudden defection of El Glaoui, France's oldest Moroccan ally. Yet none of these reverses vexed the touchy Deputies as much as Edgar Faure...
...Impresario Arthur Godfrey swung the ax at his "family" again. The decapitated: Co-Producer Larry Puck (whose bride, Soprano Marion Marlowe, was fired last spring), Conductor Jerry Bresler, Announcer George Bryan (a ten-year employee), Singer Lu Ann Simms (about to return from maternity leave). At the Pennsylvania National Horse Show in Harrisburg, Equestrian Godfrey rasped: "If I can't hire and fire people to suit myself, I'm going to quit...
...last week. The cause: an estimate by the U.S. Department of Agriculture that, despite a 14% acreage cut ordered this year to shore up prices, the 1955 cotton crop will be 2% bigger than 1954's 13,696,000 bales. Good weather, increased use of fertilizer and close planting had boosted productivity; the average acre, by the department's estimate, would yield a "fantastic" 405 lbs. v. 341 last year and an average of 279 in the ten-year postwar period. Promptly, Secretary Benson announced another cut in cotton plantings. For 1956, they will be reduced...
...Manhattan's Jewish Theological Seminary, headquarters of Conservative Judaism, announced plans to raise $32 million over a ten-year period to establish a Human Brotherhood Center at the seminary, with branches in Los Angeles and Jerusalem. Curriculum of the new center's Institute for Religious and Social Studies will include the areas of belief common to Protestants, Catholics and Jews...
Twelve students in Natural Sciences 2 will take to the laboratories this fall in one of the most significant experiments of General Education's ten-year history...