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...ugly necessities, the French have found one continuing source of solace: the dramatic exploits of a tough, leathery colonel named Marcel Bigeard. The son of a railway mechanic, Bigeard was a humdrum bank clerk in Toul when he was called up just before World War II. Today, a weatherbeaten and wiry 41, he is a legend...
...Asia hand, snaps some memorable candids of the famed and humble, ranging from Vinoba Bhave, India's post-Gandhi Gandhi (TIME, May 11, 1953), to Mr. Fu, a Hong Kong opium connoisseur with a palate as refined as that of the most finicky Western vinophile. There is a weatherbeaten Malayan old man of the sea who knows the language of the fish (sharks say "snnnnnng KWAH"). And there is-in perhaps the most haunting portrait of all-modest, bewildered Tenzing Norkay, conqueror of Mount Everest, now half-man and half-God by Asian standards. In his Darjeeling home...
Panayides left a young wife, Koutsoftas a wife and three young children. All three executed men had brothers, sisters and parents. Moved from the prison area, bereaved relatives waited the night through together, a weatherbeaten group in dust-covered farming clothes, their faces molten with a mixture of sadness and indissoluble hatred. Far away in England, Mrs. Patrick Hale, with a six-month-old child in her arms and another on the way, came home...
Vital Statistics: Born at Maisons-Laffitte, near Paris, on June 18, 1896. Tall, wiry and weatherbeaten, with thin, greying hair and the jaunty stride of a cadet, De Latour has a courtly and dignified old-army manner, develops a sharp bite when things need changing. Married to a soldier's daughter, he has eight children: seven daughters and a son, who was born five months...
Japan. Around Tokyo's cluttered "Street of the Helmet" near the Tokyo Stock Exchange, hundreds of little stores last week teemed with brokers and small investors ranging from kimono-clad women to weatherbeaten farmers, all hopeful of making a few quick yen. After a year of falling prices, the Tokyo stock market suddenly turned around, gained 10% last week alone. Reasons: there were prospects of trade with Red China, and the new Hatoyama caretaker government promised a less stringent austerity program, announced plans to reduce taxes on corporate dividends...