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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Such talk has long been cafe chatter in France. What gave it sudden new weight was a short speech by Premier Mollet himself. Socialists have always been the most vociferous opponents of a strong executive, fearing right-wing authoritarianism. But last week Socialist Mollet declared: "The country has the impression that her institutions no longer correspond to the needs of the modern state. It is for the republicans themselves to take the initiative for a profound constitutional reform." Mollet declared that he intended to introduce "a small number of simple propositions" to provide "the assurance of governmental continuity...
...figure who already belongs to history. In contrast, Germany's Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, only a year younger, seemed almost youthful as he bustled about, looking solicitously to the welfare of his guest. Rheumy-eyed and bowed with fatigue, Churchill, at Lady Churchill's side, doggedly dragged his weight up the 23 steps into Aachen's city hall, putting on a brave show for the 5,000 Germans gathered in the square to greet...
Rising Ratio. The ideal VTOL may come into being through the continuous improvement of jet engines. Research Engineer Earl R. Hinz of Ryan Aeronautical Co. points out that when the static thrust of an airplane's engines exceeds the airplane's weight, a vertical take-off is possible-at least in theory. Apparently no operational jet plane has such thrust at present, but the ratio of thrust to weight-even with the low-power figures still published by the security-morbid U.S. Department of Defense-is climbing rapidly. For the F-86 Sabre jet the ratio is four...
Born. To Peter Ustinov, 35, pudgy British playwright (The Love of Four Colonels) and cinemactor (Quo Vadis, We're No Angels), and Suzanne Cloutier, 27, Canadian-born cinemactress: their second child, his third, a son; in London. Name: Igor Nicholas. Weight...
...Knew Too Much (Paramount), a remake by Alfred Hitchcock of his 1935 thriller, is almost buried beneath the weight of Technicolor, Vista-Vision and an endless Storm Cloud Cantata performed by the London Symphony Orchestra and the Covent Garden Chorus. Indulging his taste for contrast, Hitchcock takes an American family-so glossily normal that it might have popped out of a refrigerator advertisement-and sets it down in the eternal grime of Marrakech, Morocco. The family: Jimmy Stewart, a surgeon from Indianapolis; Doris Day, his songbird wife; Christopher Olsen, their typically cute son who thinks North Africa looks just like...