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...Replace Grandval. whom the French colons detest, with General Pierre Boyer de Latour du Moulin, the successful Resident General of Tunisia...
Spectacular (Sat. 9 p.m., NBC). Svengali and the Blonde, a 90-minute musical version of George du Maurier's Trilby, starring Carol Channing, Basil Rathbone. Narrator: Ethel Barrymore...
Records were also made in the chemical industry. Du Pont announced that for the first half of 1955 it earned $3.98 a share, a new six-month record topping the old high for the period of $3.22 a share, set just a year ago. Union Carbide earned $35,217,819 during the second quarter, almost 75% more than it made in the same three months a year...
...refused to be cowed by the anti-Semitism of the day, through sheer ability became the first Jewish officer to be appointed to the French general staff. Suddenly, on Oct. 15, 1894, he was ordered to report to the office of the chief of staff. There a Major du Paty de Clam dictated a letter filled with secrets known to have been stolen from the French by a German spy. Major de Clam's theory was that Dreyfus would recoil in terror at the familiar facts and figures, thus revealing himself as the spy. When Dreyfus took the dictation...
...enough orders. On its American debut the Morane-Saulnier craft flew Ambassador to the U.S. Maurice de Murville from Washington to New York in 35 minutes, setting a civil aviation record In pure research, France's large Société Nationale de Constructions Aéronautiques du Sud-Ouest (S.N.C.A.S.O.) is flying its Trident, a jet-and-rocket-powered interceptor, at supersonic speeds, while the tiny (400 workers) Leduc Co. has built an even more radical fighter with a needlelike plastic cockpit and a 143,000-lb.-thrust (at 621 m.p.h.) ramjet engine. Carried aloft on the back...