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Stirring the Young. Bedecked with the Nobel prize, the Order of Merit, the Legion of Honor and sixteen honorary degrees, Eliot next month will join France's small but select Academic Septentrionelle and take a seat left vacant since the death of Rudyard Kipling. Among the birthday salutes this week is a book of personal tributes (T. S. Eliot: A Symposium for his Seventieth Birthday; Farrar. Straus & Cudahy; $5). Its contributors, alongside the usual literary figures, include English schoolboys and girls between the ages of 14 and 18. most of whom sound so solemn and professional as to suggest...
Automatic Transgression. In Columbus, Ohio, Raymond Pickens borrowed a 1952 Chevrolet from a used car dealer to try it out, drove it to a vacant lot, where police found him lifting out the motor with a chain hoist he had secured to a tree limb...
CLIMBING aboard an Egyptian Misrair Viking at Tunis airport early this week, I found, by luck, a vacant seat next to Krim. He was returning to Cairo from the Conference of North African Arabs and, after an initial coolness ("I took you for a Frenchman"), he dropped his natural wariness of strangers and began to talk. Once started, he talked so steadily and passionately that he left his breakfast of omelet and chicken untouched. Time and again, as he tried to explain and justify the terrible momentum of the nationalist rebellion in which he was caught up, the same word...
Shooting, much of it panicky, spread through the city. A rebel band blew up Premier Sami Solh's vacant home on the edge of Beirut's Moslem quarter. By that night a reported 50 had been killed. The brigade-size Lebanese army, which has been content to be a fire department instead of a combat force, sent armored cars through the streets with searchlights probing rooftops for snipers, held the rebel forces to their old Moslem-quarter strongholds in both Beirut and Tripoli. The U.S. declared an "alert status" for Lebanon, and its Beirut embassy prepared to evacuate...
Shock at Home. But Harold Macmillan stepped off the plane at London Airport to face jolting news. For weeks the country had been watching the Lancashire textile center of Rochdale, where a crucial by-election campaign was being waged to fill the seat left vacant by the death of Tory M.P. Lieut. Colonel Wentworth Schofield. Contesting the seat again for Labor was 47-year-old Jack McCann, a local diesel-engine fitter, who was handily defeated by Schofield in the last general election. A sturdy, 41-year-old real-estate agent from nearby Burnley named John Parkinson was to hold...