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France's dramatic walkout at the United Nations General Assembly yesterday may prove damaging both to the French position and the the prestige of the Free World itself. Coming at a time when the thorny Moroccan crisis seemed to be approaching a final settlement and when French economic readjustment was achieving measurable success, the boycott reflects the obdurate refusal to compromise or consider the position of the other side that has always been so much a part of France's political character...
...issues, however, have produced such unanimity in French politics as the question on which the French walkout was based. The Afro-Asian bloc in the UN has always considered Algeria as fruitful ground for anti-colonial agitation. The French, on the other hand, have incorporated Algeria into Greater France, granting its citizens the same rights as those of other Departments When the anti-colonial nations attempted to bring up the Algerian question at an Assembly meeting, the French exited, claiming the debate would infringe upon the internal affairs of their country...
...stickler for the till-death-do-us-part bit, Cinemactress Rita Hayworth played the fourth matrimonial walkout of her career as she left Crooner Dick Haymes. A violent quarrel about their careers and previous marriages-he, too, was trying marriage for the fourth time-split their two-year-old union. The parting left Rita in shock, Dick in tears. To intimates, and to almost any reporter who would listen, Dick confided: "I love Rita. A man is only in love once, and she has been my idol for 18 years." That same night, with Hollywood's Cocoanut Grove packed...
...auto industry virtually assured itself of three years of labor peace last week. After a quickie (six hours) walkout, Chrysler signed the standard three-year contract with the U.A.W. embodying the Reuther version of the guaranteed annual wage. Like Ford and G.M. before it, Chrysler agreed to establish a fund to guarantee its 139,000 employees 65% of their regular pay for 26 weeks. It also promised minor raises for increases in efficiency and the higher cost of living. Cost to Chrysler: an estimated 20? an hour per employee, about the same as at Ford...
...find his front yard engulfed by a flood. Allowed to move freely through the countryside once more, huge piles of export freight and armies of overseas-bound passengers found themselves stopped short at Britain's shores by a 25-day-old dockers' strike and a wildcat walkout of seamen manning the Commonwealth's huge passenger vessels...