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...from the Ministry of the Interior (headed by Faure himself) said that the gendarme could be court-martialed and the cameraman charged with bribery. The communique did not mention the cameraman's nationality, described him only as "a representative of a foreign film company." The result was a torrent of anti-American editorials in French newspapers that did not bother to check the truth of the charge...
...love is entirely consonant with much narrow practice of hatred; but Khrushchev, for all the verbal virtuosity of his performance, for-all the too-familiar clasping of Asia to his bosom, has been treating the intelligence of his hosts with no little contempt if he imagines that his torrent of words is enough to sweep them off their feet...
Very quickly, the season's opening stumble should be forgotten, however, in the torrent of big shows to come. The three networks are pouring more than $75 million into the next few months. The deluge will include some memorable repeats from other seasons: there will be, for example, another Peter Pan with the matchless Mary Martin and Cyril Ritchard. But there will also be new productions that ransack libraries, scoop in ballerinas, acrobats, actors, film and ideas from just about everywhere. Most favorites will be back. For the first time, the major Hollywood studios will be onstage...
...mothered by another hurricane, Diane, which swept toward the U.S. from the mid-Atlantic. But Diane turned out to be a weak sister, and soon after hitting the Carolina coast she became a mere squalling rainstorm. When the fading Diane hit the hot and humid Northeast, she released a torrent of rain-the moisture that Diane had sucked out of the ocean when she was still a whirling hurricane. For 24 hours the rains fell from burst clouds, filling rivers and streams, inundating large areas of Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York and New England (see NEWS IN PICTURES...
...speech that top military men were prepared to consider "intervention" if it seemed to them that the October presidential election threatened to bring on "revolution and chaos." But, paradoxically, the general's stern words may have lessened the immediate danger of a coup. The speech evoked an answering torrent of anticoup sentiments from the press, public, politicos and even some military leaders. That strong reaction would probably influence the generals to go along for the present with the unpredictable processes of democracy. All three of the major presidential candidates spoke...