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Belatedlv. French officials took a regretful backward look at Ferhat Abbas. Sighed one: "He was a man with whom we could have come to an understanding." France's stiff-necked President Charles de Gaulle may find that he blundered badly in not having dealt with Abbas-while there was still time...
...indefatigable hiker, he walked four miles to his courtroom every morning until he was past 75: "I shall continue the practice until that final morning when, fittingly. I shall fall backward head over heels down the courthouse steps." He detested barking dogs and chewing gum,, once assaulted a quailing law clerk with: "Sonny! We have come to a parting of the ways. I smell Spearmint again." But in some rare areas his ignorance was monumental. "I don't know what Mickey Mantle is or does," he once complained...
Militant Feminist Lalla Aisha of Morocco made her first public speech in the cause of female emancipation at the age of 17. She urged the veiled and backward women of her land "to participate ardently and usefully in the life of the nation." The speech automatically earned her the leadership of the Moroccan feminist movement (TIME cover, Nov.11, 1957) for she was a princess, the daughter of King Mohammed...
...needed money. The book value of Williams' endowment more than doubled to $27.7 million (market value: $40 million). Equally important, Williams began linking fields to enrich teaching. Among the blends: art-and-literature, art-and-religion. U.S. history-and-literature. Baxter also sharply built up Williams' backward science departments. Even so, the college now has a slightly lower (1:10) teacher-student ratio than when he took over...
...firmament, "Where the hell have you been?" Ranging across the world for targets, he aims at many, misses few. Mauldin's Khrushchev stands in the U.N., a squat, solitary and ridiculous figure with his own shoe stuffed into his mouth. As for Russia's huge and backward Orientalally, Communist China, few cartoonists could sum it up better than Mauldin's trenchant cartoon that shows the Chinese as human ties beneath an oncoming train...