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Mendès had scarcely returned to his villa Joli-Port when Molotov arrived. Was it true that the U.S. would refuse to sign the agreement? the Russian demanded. If so. the cease-fire might not be acceptable to Russia. Mendès scurried over to the Hotel du Rhône, where U.S. Under Secretary of State Bedell Smith had taken dismally to his bed with lumbago...
Sounding Board. To organize and kindle this new enthusiasm, rising young newspaperman Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, publisher of the intellectual magazine L'Express, began a series of informal diners du travail. Jacques Soustelle, De Gaulle's bright young lieutenant, came, so did young MRPers of Bidault's party like André Monteil and Robert Buron, and Socialists like Robert Lacoste and Gaston Defferre. Says Servan-Schreiber: "First, we had to get a sounding board for Mendès. With his isolation in Parliament, he made brilliant speeches but there was no political echo. Secondly, he had always...
...dozen stockholders, including three members of the Du Pont family, invested $7,325 in a Delaware housing project, and drew $549-375 in profits 45 days after the building was completed...
Mary Anne, by Daphne du Maurier. A royal duke, a scheming mistress, a scandal that shakes the House of Commons-in other words, all that Du Maurier fans need for a happy evening (TIME, June...
...week. The market not only recovered from its nine-point slide of two weeks ago. but kept on climbing. At week's end the Dow-Jones industrial average closed at 332.53, up almost five points in a week. This week the market was still climbing. In one day Du Pont, on the rumor of a stock split, jumped 15½ points to 1433½. Said Commerce Secretary Weeks: "I don't care what others think; I believe the stock market is still one of the best barometers of business this country has." Despite the rising barometer, the Administration...