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...crime, poverty and prostitution. Last month a gang of white Teddy boys jumped a West Indian laborer and beat him with fists and clubs. A few nights later, another white gang beat up and robbed two Negro workers. The white wife of a colored man was jeered and spat upon by neighbors. Nottingham's Conservative M.P., Lieut. Colonel J. K. Cordeaux, told a mass meeting that it was a "scandal" that "foreigners" should come to Britain and drive up in cars to collect welfare benefits...
...allowed to. Scores of them have paid with their lives for refusing or failing to contribute to the F.L.N. (National Liberation Front). An estimated 95% of them now pay up. Last week, in a series of well-planned and devastating acts of sabotage, the F.L.N. terrorists turned, not upon their fellow Algerians, but upon the French themselves. Even as Premier de Gaulle pleaded his cause in Algeria (see above), the two-year-old F.L.N. threat to "carry the war to France" became-at least for a while-a grim reality...
Last week, French army headquarters in Algiers belatedly announced that six weeks ago one of its patrols had stumbled upon the bullet-ridden body of Olivier Dubos. In Paris bitter newspaper articles charged that Dubos had been killed because he was "too much loved in Moslem homes." But in a final, smuggled letter to Dubos' parents. "Colonel" Amirouche, commander of the F.L.N.'s Third Military District, offered a rationalization as old, and as barren, as the hills. Wrote Amirouche: "Please believe that the execution is not a gesture of vengeance or of sterile rage, but has been forced...
...Friday, the Penitentes stage processions between morada and Calvary-some stripped to the waist, with thorny cacti bound around their chests, some scourging themselves every few steps with sharp-bladed yucca leaves until the blood saturates their trousers, some staggering under 15-ft. wooden crosses. Some of them crawl upon the sharp stones on lacerated knees and hands, and each, beneath the black hood that conceals his identity, recites prayers of penance...
From the small, thick-walled ball under Trieste's belly, scientists looked upon a world within the world where living men had never been. Already Trieste has descended almost three miles, or 20 times deeper than conventional submarines. It can do this without danger to itself or passengers because it operates under water like a blimp. Its 50-ft. hull is a float carrying 28,000 gallons of gasoline, which is 30% lighter than sea water and compressible. The float does the job of a balloon's gas-filled bag, while the passenger ball hangs below. Water enters...