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...report, written by young (30) Andre Vial, co-editor of the leftist Catholic weekly Temoignage Chretien (Christian Witness), was directed at the government of Socialist Premier Guy Mollet, but it did not blame Mollet so much as his successor, Premier Maurice Bourges-Maunoury, who was Mollet's Minister of National Defense. Charged I.P.I.: Bourges-Maunoury moved against the press "because of a single political motive: the Algerian affair...
Though hardly an impartial critic, since Temoignage (circ. 66,593) has frequently been in hot water for criticizing Algerian policy, Editor Vial documented such reprisals as the imprisonment of Resistance Heroine Claude Gerard on charges of "endangering external security" with a series of stories from Algeria that appeared in Demain (TIME, June 11, 1956), the weekly organ of Mollet's own Socialist Party...
First, Dr. Southam used Novocain to anesthetize an area about three inches across. Into the middle of the area he stuck a tattoo needle that left a blue dot for a reference mark. Out of a vial and into a hypodermic syringe he drew up a cubic centimeter of pink fluid-mostly water, but containing millions of cancer cells from human victims of the disease. The cells had been grown for years in test tubes by Dr. Alice E. Moore, Sloan-Kettering tissue-culture specialist, who had carried the cells to Columbus herself -in her handbag...
...events of his time and to other people. Man, says Simone, is free, but his freedom to choose will surely lead him to destruction if he retreats before the come-and-go of his time. Heroine Anne sees all this just in time. She puts away her poison vial and determines to be useful to her family and friends. The last words of the book are hers, and they are about as optimistic as a careful existentialist novelist ever lets a heroine become: "Who knows? Perhaps one day I'll be happy again. Who knows...
...Official figures on the amount of vaccine released had always been misleading by 10%, because the makers put almost 10 cc. in each vial labeled 9 cc., to make up for the few drops lost every time a doctor changes needles...