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...itself, the jet transport age would not do much to solve the world's problems (military jets are already old hat), except, possibly, to put Secretary of State John Foster Dulles more places more often. But its advent was another milestone in the oldest and most adventurous struggle of all: man's indefatigable drive to conquer his own environment...
...versatility and wide range which the present fluid situation makes possible. The reason for the vast number and variety of the productions Mr. Titcomb enumerates is the freedom from imposed standards of any sort which the Harvard director now enjoys. It is felt by many that the advent of concentration in drama together with strong faculty supervision in the new theater will result in the loss of this freedom. This is why the request for continued student autonomy in productions, so churlishly and peremptorily rejected by the Faculty Committee For The New Theatre, was included in the report made...
Most interesting thing in the seized papers was a L'Express article reporting that since De Gaulle's advent the army in Algeria had purged itself of all senior officers with "liberal" tendencies and had set up Committees of Public Safety in every Algerian commune. Behind these maneuvers, charged L'Express, was a youthful, fascist-minded "college of colonels" whose moving spirits had served against the Communist Viet Minh in Indo-China. From their enemy they were said to have developed an intense admiration for Mao Tse-tung's psychological techniques in controlling villagers. (Algerian rebels...
...whole, is a safe business. But each collision (and there are quite a few, involving military or non-passenger planes, that do not receive wide publicity) indicates that aviation is still not as safe as it might be. The situation will become even more dangerous with the advent of widespread jet traffic, a phenomenon for which American aviation is singularly unprepared...
Down the Middle. All this has come as a rude shock to opposition politicians. The party which Malagodi heads is the heir to the one that made Italy a nation, and, until the advent of Mussolini, most of Italy's Premiers called themselves Liberals. But in 1952, when Malagodi joined the party, it was, says one of its members, "in the seventh day of pneumonia." Thanks to his family's longtime prominence in Liberal politics and his own sharp intelligence-he was general manager of Milan's giant Banca Commerciale Italiana at 29-stocky Giovanni Malagodi rose...