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Line of Mercury. Pinay had a good talking point, but he would need results, not arguments, to convince the National Assembly, which reconvenes next month, that his government can keep its promise to balance the French budget without raising taxes. At first, Pinay did remarkably well (TIME, April 21 et seq.), but by last week his "save-the-franc" campaign had fallen afoul of man and nature. Foot-and-mouth disease, raging in central France, had ravaged cattle herds, sent beef and veal prices soaring. A hot, rainless summer reduced butter and cheese production, ripened a grape harvest so abundant...
...scanning the horizon, last week displayed two from the horizon-or a bit beyond. Both were still in the model stage. ¶ The Geodesic House, which looks at quick glance like an airy, latticework igloo, is the work of ingenious Designer R. Buckminster Fuller (TIME, Nov. 7, 1946, et seq.). Fuller's new design-aims at economy and simplicity. He chose the dome shape in order to cover the largest area with the least surface, and because such a house should be easier to cool and heat than conventional ones. The surface itself, he says, can be transparent...
Neither the defendants nor their lawyers attempted the kind of sustained courtroom didos which kept the New York trial of Red leaders in turmoil (TIME, Jan. 31, 1949 et seq.). One Government witness, an ex-Communist named Louis Rosser, spiced up the proceedings by recalling that the party had continually urged him to "move in" with a "well-developed Communist woman," and picked five for his consideration before he finally married one. The Government produced one startling witness, a grey-haired little old lady named Daisy Van Dorn, who had eavesdropped while running the elevator in a San Francisco Communist...
...owed his defeat to President Rhee himself. Lee had been so effective in riding herd on the South Korean Assembly (TIME, June 9 et. seq.), mobbing the Assembly with young hoodlums and arresting some of its members, that he came out of the battle with too much power to suit Rhee. Since Lee posed a threat, Rhee kicked him out of the Home Ministry and had police, block leaders and village elders pass the word to voters that Rhee's favorite for the vice-presidency was not Lee, but a little-known politico of 82 (some...
...bands used to take their personality from the improvisations of the front men -Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey, Harry James, et al.-and the orchestrations had only to fit into the leader's style. Nowadays, most bands get their special character from the arranger's musical personality, and the musicians just sit there and play the notes he writes. The most recent and one of the most original of the arrangers' bands, launched last week by Victor: the combination of Ed Sauter, 37, who wrote such items as Benny Rides Again and Superman for Goodman, and Bill Finegan...