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...general still did not commit himself on Algeria's ultimate political status: "I believe it would be completely useless to petrify in advance in words something which our enterprise itself will outline," he said. But he made it abundantly clear that the day of European privilege in Algeria was ending. "In two months," he said, "Algeria will elect her representatives under the same conditions as Metropolitan France. It will be necessary that at least two-thirds of her representatives be Moslem citizens...
...neighbor to this orgy, Bogard realizes that to help the girl he must commit himself, for once, to action--the moral crux of the book. To call the Yard Cops is outside "the code," and in trying to break up the festivities himself he is discouragingly slammed around. Finally, he and a med-school friend put the girl into some kind of shape and send her home. Bogard is called before the deans to answer for his failure to notify the police. But because he tried to help the comatose slut, Bogard is not expelled, but allowed to resign...
...medicine. Radio constantly fingers patients who need hospitalization, gets doctors out fast to the bush by plane. Alerted by radio last month, Fairbanks' Dr. Jean Persons, a minister's thirtyish daughter who has braved many a stormy night flight, rushed to a man who had tried to commit suicide by shooting himself in the chin. She landed in time to stop the blood, took him back for plastic surgery...
Dulles told his news conference Chiang Kai-shek was foolish to commit one-third of his Nationalist armed forces to Quemoy and the other offshore islands now being pounded by Red artillery. But Dulles conceded this government acquiesced. The secretary dashed cold water on Chiang's oft-repeated determination to wrest the China mainland from the Communists. Dulles said Chiang's return "is a highly hypothetical matter...
...specialists in collateral loans, Garvin, Bantel was active in financing for private buyers more than $300 million of the 2⅝% Government issue dumped so heavily by speculators. The exchange charged that Garvin, Bantel had failed to find out full particulars on its customers, to see whether they could commit themselves so heavily, that it had accepted less than the required 5% margin in some cases. Actually, the firm's part in the bond slide was small. It financed only about 3% of the $10.3 billion marketed by the Treasury at the peak of activity. Though Wall Streeters feel...