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Stripped of his French army jobs and officially spanked by the NATO Council in a resolution condemning "the public utterances of Marshal Alphonse Juin," the obstreperous old soldier went right on saying his say with uninhibited vigor. Strongly opposing any kind of liberal policy toward the rebels in North Africa, 67-year-old Juin last month proposed in a magazine article that NATO itself take on the job of quelling the trouble in Algeria. The proposition was received at SHAPE headquarters with the utmost coolness...
...loyalty and toughness and got one top job after another. He played an important role in the party purges, was put in charge of the construction of the famed Moscow Metro and finally he became czar of Russia's railroads, a job that he pursued with such vigor during World War II that he instituted the death penalty for failure to make trains run on time. With responsibilities came rewards: his home town was named after him; so were half a dozen cities throughout the Soviet Union; so was the Moscow Metro...
Jackie Gleason: "Not, at heart, I think, a truly creative comedian. He is rather an exceptionally talented extrovert, an actor who, in a comedy sketch, can deliver funny lines with polish and vigor...
Swimming, golf and tennis resumed shortly after lunch for those who could still boast of undiminished vigor, and a few even managed to engage in driving and putting contests...
...GERMAN UNIFICATION (with great vigor): If Khrushchev offered to negotiate with West Germany bilaterally on unification, "there would be no response whatsoever. It is nonsense to believe that the Soviets who were not prepared to give us reunification in peace and liberty with the other powers, would give it to us alone. They only want to bargain. In their eyes, German reunification is one of several objectives from which they want to get as much as possible. Khrushchev has said that he is willing to wait until I have disappeared...