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...Send for the Fire Chief." Kin to ten dukes, a marshal of France and one of Lafayette's officers, De Castries joined the French army as a private (1921), got his commission at cavalry officers' school, kept in trim between the wars by riding on the French international equestrian team (he once held the world record for the mounted broad and high jump). Early in World War II, De Castries was badly wounded and captured while trying to lead 60 men through an encircling German battalion. He failed in three escape attempts, made it on his fourth...
Aware that the Communists can never be really checked until democratic government fits itself to fulfill Italy's pressing economic and social needs, busy Mario Scelba also took steps last week to do some cleaning up within his government. His Cabinet proposed to trim down Italy's vast and oppressive bureaucracy...
...Philip Marlowe seems a rather mellow and gentlemanly sleuth these days, especially when measured against Mickey Spillane's neo-Neanderthal Mike Hammer. For one thing, the years have been kind to Marlowe. Introduced in 1939 (in The Big Sleep) as 33, he is still only 42, still trim and lithe. When the pace gets too hectic, Marlowe heads for the kitchen and makes coffee: "Rich, strong, bitter, boiling hot, ruthless, depraved. The lifeblood of tired men." But he is far from the pipe-and-slippers stage...
...essential for the physical health of Harvard. Dodging the vigilant cabs, cars and trucks that patrol Massachusetts Avenue was enough to test the mettle of any normally sedentary thinker. With black coffee and pleasant sophistry his reward, the scholar risked the crossing each day, sharpening his senses and developing trim reflexes. The Jungle ruled in Mass. Ave., and the Harvard man either emerged its master or, found unfit, was sent reeling, to eke out his $30 stay at Stillman...
...Such Conditions. Two days later Premier Laniel, trim and neat in a blue suit, with a white handkerchief peeping from his breast pocket, lumbered into the Assembly to take on the debaters. Why did the government not accept Indian Prime Minister Nehru's proposal for a ceasefire, to be followed by negotiations? the Socialists demanded. Was it because the Americans said not to? The U.S., added Socialist Daniel Mayer, is, after all, paying most of the bill...