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...total of 30 hours with their subject. Dick Seamon, a newsman who can write equally well about Willie Mays, Shirley MacLaine or Anne Bancroft, epitomizes TIME'S regard for versatility and breadth, is a modern, journalistic example of the sort of writer Ben Jonson admired some 350 years ago. Wrote Jonson: "And though a man be more prone and able for one kind of writing than another, yet he must exercise...
...need. Instead of a familiar East-West crisis, he talked of a North-South axis, proposed that the world's industrial "north" form a committee, with the U.S. as full partner, to coordinate and share the burden of assistance to the nonindustrialized "southern" regions. "If twelve years ago the balance of the world turned on the recovery of Western Europe, now it turns on a right relationship of the industrial north of the globe to the developing south," he said...
When the "secretarial rooms" are full, the M.P. and his staff descend to one of the stifling little cubicles located in an area called "Queen Mary." Five years ago a parliamentary select committee complained of the "bad ventilation" of these cubicles, and last week Minister of Works Lord John Hope solemnly noted that one recommendation this committee made was to have the doors of four of the cubicles removed. Though reform went through, most Members still prefer to do their dictating in an airier place-on a bench in the House of Commons lobby...
Sixteen months ago, Charles de Gaulle swept grandly through France's black Africa empire-the biggest European holdings on the continent-offering self-government and membership in a new French Community. Only Sekou Toure's Guinea turned him down. De Gaulle was able to put together a Community of eleven autonomous African states, plus the island republic of Madagascar. What if they wanted independence? "You have only to ask for it," said De Gaulle...
...Your Right." Since the very next meeting of the French Community's executive council was to be held in Mali, a showdown with Paris was unavoidable. Three weeks ago De Gaulle invited the leaders of Mali to Paris, and when they asked for full, free control of foreign affairs, defense, and finance (previously reserved by the Community, i.e., France), De Gaulle answered affably: "It is your right." Old Soldier de Gaulle added a piece of paternal advice: Be wary of creating an army and thus a troublesome independent political force, as in South America. De Gaulle's package...