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Most of Tshombe's staff work was coordinated by French army veterans seasoned in Indo-China and Algeria. Ablest and best known is Major Rene Faulkes, a thin, ascetic ex-para officer who was left for dead in Indo-China and who became notorious in Algeria for torturing French sympathizers of the F.L.N. Faced with a treason rap in France, many of the French mercenaries are acutely sensitive about publicity; they have threatened to kill photographers and television cameramen who have attempted to take their pictures. "The French are brave, resolute, and fanatical," says a former U.N. official. "Most...
...Institutions, Griswold doubted strongly that today's universities fully contribute to "society's moral health." Griswold further broadened his attack to include two old value-defending allies: "The family has become too scared of its children." and "the church too much of a social welfare organization." A thin, well-read line of scholars is not enough to defend the proposition that "in education, the customer isn't always right...
This was perhaps the grimmest meeting over which John Kennedy had presided as President of the U.S. Around him sat the members of the National Security Council, along with other diplomatic and military leaders and an assortment of top scientists. On the coffin-shaped Cabinet table rested a thin book, bound in blue paper and red-stamped TOP SECRET. It was an intelligence estimate of the results of the more than 50 recent Russian atomic tests. It made for unhappy reading, and its seriousness was only partly reflected by a public statement put out at week...
...board of education meeting called last week to decide the school's fate, 1,000 citizens heard three hours of speeches against a truncated Lowell. "No matter how thin you slice it," cried one Spears critic, "this will not be an academic high school." After nearly 40 speeches from the floor, the board of education voted 6 to 1 in favor of an undistricted new Lowell. A great cheer shook the hall...
...fitting that the leading ecumenist was born in the first year of it. His father was a lawyer in the Dutch city of Haarlem; the family name (pronounced fisser toaft) means "fisher at the head''-the chief fisherman. Willem-then called muis (mouse) for his thin, sharp face, but now nicknamed Wim-was the gayest of three brothers, excelling at hockey and tennis, and good, though not brilliant, in school. His father was shocked when Wim said he was thinking of becoming a pastor. "You will have a hard life, and I doubt if you'll like...