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...from the tapered stern to the golden eagle on its bow, Angelita is the same ship that dazzled bleak Russia in 1937 when its former owner, Mrs. Marjorie Merriweather Post Davies, and husband Joseph E. Davies, U.S. Ambassador to the U.S.S.R., sailed the vessel, then named Sea Cloud, through the Baltic to Leningrad...
...Algeria whose demagogic appeals for integration into France had made him the white hope of the Algerian diehards. At De Gaulle's behest, Soustelle last week slipped off to Paris in a special plane, trailing behind him uncharacteristically moderate remarks about "federal possibilities" for Algeria, and a cloud of rumors that he was about to receive a government post. Watching him go, the diehards suddenly recognized that there might be more than one explanation for the fact that cold-eyed Jacques Soustelle had always modestly refused to accept leadership of the Algerian Committee of Public Safety...
...typical cave factory, workers descend by escalators, take their place at assembly lines lit by mercury lamps. The air is changed four times an hour, given freshness by the addition of ozone. Claustrophobia is avoided through the use of windows that look out on painted landscapes and cloud-filled skies...
...avoid spreading excessive cheer, Commerce-Labor pointed out that the silver cloud had a grey lining. Much of the May job increase resulted from a surge of hirings for construction projects that had been delayed by early spring's foul weather; employment in manufacturing, the economy's soft spot, actually declined again in May. And Capitol Hill's bearish Joint Economic Committee predicted last week that the economy will not get back its full pre-recession robustness until mid-1959 at the earliest, and possibly not until late...
...haired man whose features were drawn with fatigue slipped quietly out the back door of the Hotel Matignon and got into another car. Half an hour later Pierre Pflimlin, who was completing his 13th day as Premier of France, walked into the Château de La Celle-Saint-Cloud, a government-owned residence in the Paris suburbs. Waiting for Pflimlin in the chateau was the looming, angular figure of General Charles de Gaulle...