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...General Dwight Eisenhower more than any other individual free-world leader who forged and welded the framework of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Next week in Paris, its framework subject to the greatest strains, internal and external, in its history, its heads of government will meet, at the call of President Dwight Eisenhower, for NATO's most important conclave. In Eisenhower's former role as NATO Supreme Commander is a U.S. Air Force general named Lauris Norstad. For a report on NATO, its leaders, its strengths, its doubts and its future, see FOREIGN NEWS, The View...
...Paris Gaillard drove through the long-delayed loi-cadre (framework law) to give Algeria limited home rule. Only two months ago the Assembly had cut a more liberal draft to shreds and so brought down Gaillard's predecessor. Partly because Deputies were unwilling to overturn a brand-new government, partly because the new Premier had prudently pruned away the clauses most objectionable to right-wing nationalists, the bill was approved by a 269-to-200 vote...
...squeezed into a few weeks' time. In one respect, something has been lost: the characters are no longer so fully and revealingly lived with, hence so expressive or large. In another respect, something has been blurred: there is a lessened thematic sense, and even in a tighter framework, where everything should prove integral, some things are merely episodic or picturesque...
Died. Sir Alfred Zimmern, 78, egg-bald British political scientist, historian, longtime (1930-44) Oxford professor of international relations, who helped draft the League of Nations Covenant and shape the framework of UNESCO; of a cerebral thrombosis; in Avon, Conn...
...best student is the one who will push himself, and Harvard must provide a framework within which students find encouragement for this sort of activity. Increased requirements and prodding only retard meaningful intellectual development. A reading list and a sheaf of bluebooks cannot produce an educated...