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...into action. "Good news has come from the Soviet Union," crowed East Germany's Neues Deutschland. "The most powerful weapon ever developed is in good hands." Communist diplomats haughtily brushed aside the latest Western proposals on disarmament (see FOREIGN NEWS), instead threatened U.S. allies and warned them to abandon U.S. bases. The new missile, said Moscow radio, "is a gigantic step forward that ought to cool off the hotheads...
Exquisitely shaped, the vases show the ancient Greeks as they were, their manlike gods and godlike men, their moments of joy and ecstasy, of heroism and erotic abandon. Whether they portray an Olympic race, a night on the town or a musician lost in his art (opposite), the figures have a bouncy, springlike energy that most observers find irresistible...
When France devalued the franc, newly independent Tunisia's President Habib Bourguiba saw a chance to make a little money-and a little propaganda. By the end of the year, said Bourguiba last week. Tunisia will abandon the French franc and issue its own currency, thereby freeing itself from a "policy dominated by instability and by the requirements of a war [in Algeria] whose end cannot be seen...
...Last year workers bought 157,000 new cars (v. 98,400 in 1955), plus 127,000 scooters and motorcycles. Food stores are jammed with goods; meat consumption is up 30% over 1950. This summer German tourists are traveling around Europe in record numbers, flashing hard currency with an abandon once reserved for Americans...
...Stokey hands out actable "stumpers" (e.g., "Hand your teeth to me, grandma, I'm putting the bite on a friend") to competing four-man teams, each made up of two name actors and two pretty actresses. The player who gets the stumper acts it out with passion and abandon while his three teammates have only two minutes to supply the words. Stokey has speeded up the game with the invention of 32 timesaving hand signals (for the six "basic" signals, see panel), and years of competition have given to some of his players-Jackie Coogan, Hans Conried, Dorothy Hart...