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...duty." With icy defiance, a cabal of five generals and eleven field officers told him flatly that 1) the army would not fire on Frenchmen, 2) De Gaulle had no choice but to renounce his offer of self-determination and proclaim unequivocally that he would keep Algeria French. Grey-faced, Debré returned to Paris unnerved; worse yet, the furtiveness of his trip-his arrival in Algiers was not made public until after he had left-made it plain that De Gaulle's government doubted its ability to suppress the uprising...
...whisker in the career race. Marx wrote: "The Communists seek to rescue education from the influence of the ruling class," but any bright boy of the commissar caste should have a good laugh over this. If he fails to make a grade, he disappears without appeal into the grey unprivileged proletarian mass below. Inch by inch, his nose ever clean, he works through the Comsomols (Communist youth groups) and elementary science instruction, through the barracks and blackboards of his Marxist monastery to emerge at last a card-carrying member of the managerial class...
Quite simply, this is a woman who captivates an entire room with one gesture, her intensity and variety of expression, her luminous grey-green eyes, her very Irishness, makes people squirm in unlimited approval. She spoke with that "passionate subjectivity" which she finds lacking in theatre today. "I think that people who are not subjective are dull-I believe in total involvement. The theater is not just stages and actors and tickets, it is the audience. Actors owe it to their audience to participate with them, to possess them, to let them help in the creation of a spirit...
Communist Castles. Rugged as this daily grind is, more and more Muscovites are turning into dachniks. Private frame dwellings (individually owned, but on land leased from the state) arise in numbers almost as great as the grey blocks of new city apartments that grow in melancholy monotony in Moscow's residential districts. Letting or subletting dachas is one of the few flourishing forms of private enterprise left in Russia. Last week the Moscow press charged that a food-store manager had unlawfully bought a twelve-room, seven-porch dacha in a scientists' colony, added two more dachas inside...
...strolls through Accra's colorful street markets, where mobs of merchant "mammies" screamed "Akwaaba" (welcome) and jovially spread bright kente cloth on the streets for the Macmillans to walk on. Showered with gifts, Macmillan gingerly examined a preferred smoked fish, retorting, "What, no chips?" Natty in a grey tropical suit, the Prime Minister even mounted a surf craft to be paddled briefly out to sea by a team of Accra's skillful boatmen...