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...five-year program for French atomic energy development. After holding junior office in four successive Cabinets went into temporary eclipse during the premiership of fellow Radical Socialist Pierre Mendès-France, who thought him overly conservative, overly Europe-minded. In 1955 headed French delegation which laid the groundwork for the Common Market and Euratom treaties...
...Squadron (all Negro) at Tuskegee, Ala., became executive assistant to the director of personnel and industrial relations of Trans World Airlines-one of the few Negroes in an executive capacity in a major U.S. airline. Though T.W.A. had no comment, insiders say that Airman Plinton will help lay the groundwork for T.W.A.'s first Negro pilots under an industry agreement last year (TIME, Oct. 15) to eliminate discrimination in hiring flight personnel...
Whether the exiled Georgy Malenkov will be allowed to manage his dam for long is something that perhaps even Nikita Khrushchev does not know at the moment. But just in case Malenkov must be done away with, Khrushchev laid the groundwork a fortnight ago by a pointed reference to Malenkov's involvement in "the Leningrad Case." This curious purge, and its echoes for nearly a decade, play a key role in the current Kremlin power struggle...
...Eisenhower Administration's plans to work out a traffic control system for the commercial jet age. Last week the Senate Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee took the first big step toward such a plan, voted to create an air modernization board (TIME, May 27) that will lay the groundwork for a joint air control system for military and civil planes...
...appears almost certain that the College will expand. The groundwork for growth has been laid by the Program for Harvard College. Harvard's decision to expand is by no means a radical one. In the past Harvard has gradually enlarged in order to meet the demands of the future, and now, when the years ahead hold an unprecedented rise in college applications, the reasons for expansion are especially great...