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...especially to France, lovers of liberty ..." But when it came time to deliver the speech, Ben Youssef ignored the French paragraph, appealed instead for the solidarity of Islam. The French were furious. To-teach the Sultan a lesson, they appointed an imperious and impetuous new Resident General : Alphonse Juin, topflight field soldier and veteran of long years of service in North Africa. An old-fashioned imperialist, Marshal Juin had his own Moroccan to set up against Ben Youssef: El Glaoui...
Died. Charles P. Berkey, 88, topflight U.S. geologist, Columbia University's Newberry professor emeritus of geology since 1941, expert consultant in the building of Hoover and Grand Coulee Dams and of Manhattan bridges and tunnels, chief geologist in the 1925 Gobi expedition of the American Museum of Natural History; in Palisade...
Gentler Triggers. Although Bhabha was the first topflight scientist to predict the coming of H-power, the prospect has intrigued his brethren everywhere (TIME, July 25). Present atomic reactors all use the fission process: splitting nuclei of the heavier atoms, e.g., uranium or plutonium, to produce a controllable reaction. But fusion, used solely in the H-bomb, involves binding the nuclei of far more plentiful, lighter atoms (deuterium, lithium, etc.) under tremendous heat to produce an explosion...
...welded sculpture is also finding new customers. It is cheaper than cast works, and, by its nature, each object is unique. Collectors are now buying it to decorate Texas and Hollywood patios and Manhattan rooftops. Topflight modern architects-Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer, Eero Saarinen, et al.-are using it to decorate new library facades, chapels, and new college buildings...
...before granting top honors. Bent on "making up for the injustice at Venice" last year, the ten-man jury gave the $4,000 grand prize to France's aging (74) modernist master, Fernand Leger (TIME color page, June 22, 1953- see cut), then bypassed 29 works by topflight British Painter Graham Sutherland to hand the next prize of $1,300 to Italian Abstractionist Alberto Magnelli...