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...from their cars and lynching them, jeering at the U.S. consulate near the funeral church and spitting on its walls. The Moslems retaliated. Bombs exploded in four churches during Sunday services. On New Year's Day a bomb exploded in Algiers' swankiest hotel. Others were tossed at cafés all over Algeria; cyclists were machine-gunned on the road. The one-day total: 13 killed, 23 wounded. Next day, after a local train was derailed east of Oran, rescuers found the bodies of six Europeans in the wreckage; two of the women had been raped and disemboweled...
...women often wearing slacks and boots, they are too busy struggling to live. There are long queues for buses and trolley cars. There are endless day-long queues at the meat and bread stores for the basic food available: round loaves of dark bread and long Polish sausages. The cafés of Warsaw are crowded...
People often thought Charlie Merrill spent his wealth as fast as he made it. He cut a wide swath through international café society, loved good food and champagne. He owned three luxurious homes (in Palm Beach, Fla., Southampton, L.I., and Barbados), and embarked on an equal number of marriages...
...European Protestantism. Rudolf Karl Bultmann, 72, napping in his book-crammed study or limping through his grounds with his wife and daughter, does not look like an intellectual tornado. But in Germany, where ideas are apt to detonate like buzz bombs, sending shock waves through university faculties, student cafés and editorial rooms, the ideas of Rudolf Bultmann have set off a major furor...
Last week the Spanish Ministry of Labor gave the café habitues something real to chew on. It approved a new 42-hour week for insurance employees−but provided that they work from 8 a.m. until 3 p.m. without a luncheon break. Once the shock passed, the workers welcomed the change: abolishing the two-hour lunch would mean for thousands of them only two subway or bus trips a day instead of four. And hard-up Spanish workers, most of whom must hold two jobs in order to make ends meet, now had their "afternoons" free for side jobs...